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Features:About the Cover Photographer: Jay Fleming . . . . . . . . . . . 7Robert Mitchum Slept Here: Helen Chappell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9Artist’s Journey of Discovery: Dick Cooper . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25Monsieur Renard: Bill Peak . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45The Narrows Café: Margot Miller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57Tidewater Kitchen: Pamela Meredith-Doyle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65Tidewater Gardening: K. Marc Teffeau . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83The War of 1813: Gary D. Crawford . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139 Tidewater Traveler: George W. Sellers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153Christmas Candy: Jeff McNeal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159Tidewater Review: Anne Stinson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
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Departments:January Tide Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43Queen Anne’s County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77Caroline County - A Perspective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79Kent County and Chestertown at a Glance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81Dorchester Points of Interest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95Easton Points of Interest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105St. Michaels Points of Interest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115Oxford Points of Interest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129Tilghman - Bay Hundred . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137January Calendar of Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
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About the Cover PhotographerJay Fleming
Jay Fleming’s photography show-cases his twin passions for the out-doors and photography. Jay comes from a family of passionate photogra-phers. His father, Kevin Fleming, is a former National Geographic photog-rapher who has circled the globe to capture timeless images. “Instead of reading me children’s books, my par-ents showed me photography books,” he remembered.
Using one of his father’s hand-me-down rigs, a manual focus Nikon and old 300mm lens from his National Geographic days, Jay accompanied his dad to a rookery island in Dela-ware. His picture of a great egret won grand prize in a national EPA Wildlife of Wetlands photography competition. That award-winning photo, snapped at the age of 14, re-mains one of his most memorable photographs.
Since graduating from St. Mary’s College of Maryland in 2009, he has worked with different environmental organizations. He regularly donates his work to non-profit groups and has held photography shows of his own. Jay’s website is full of images of his outdoor pursuits, a combination of his passion for the environment and his love of crafting that perfect image as the light falls gently upon his subject. Jay hopes to promote conservation through photography.
The cover photo is of Capt. Art Daniels, age 91, aboard the skipjack City of Crisfield out of Deal Island, MD. “Daddy Art,” as he is known locally, has been dredging oysters for over 60 years and is one the few remaining skipjack captains on the Bay. Jay was fortunate to have joined “Daddy Art” and crew on mul-tiple trips during Maryland’s oyster season. The cover photo was taken while the crew was dropping a dredge back in the water after a “lick” across a bar in Tangier Sound.
To view more of Jay’s work, visit www.jayflemingphotography.com.
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Robert Mitchum Slept Hereby
Helen ChappellIt was the late ’50s, and I was
about seven or eight when I had my first brush with the greatness that was Robert Mitchum.
It went down at the Cambridge Yacht Club. While my parents were enjoying their pre-prandial cock-tails in the dining room, my brother Ed and I slipped away unnoticed into the bar. It was a crowded, hap-py place indeed, and no one noticed a couple of kids experimenting with a game of table shuffleboard, until:
“What the hell are those kids doing in here? Kids shouldn’t be allowed in the bar!” bellowed a resonant, if slightly slurred, bari-tone from one of the stools. He was huge, like a football player. He looked at us beneath hooded eyes, maybe seeing four instead of two of us, waving a tumbler of amber liq-uid in our general direction.
“Aw, Bob, leave ‘em alone,” someone said, soothing down his feathers, which you could tell were easily ruffled, probably due to an afternoon of drinking and holding court.
“My kids wouldn’t be allowed in here...”
My brother and I had home training. We split!
My brother had recently seen
Thunder Road, and knew an icon when he saw one. “That was Robert Mitchum!”
We were totally awed. Robert Mitchum had actually noticed us. It didn’t so much matter to us that he yelled at us – adults were always telling us kids to get lost or go out-side or do homework. He was Mr. Cool, Robert Mitchum, and that was all that mattered.
It might seem like a strange road that brought Robert Mitchum to Trappe. You think of actors and movie stars living in plush man-
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Mitchum Slept Heresions in California, not some high place in the road on the quiet East-ern Shore of the ’50s. The artist who was famous for practically creat-ing film noire, who starred in what seemed like a hundred westerns, the acclaimed actor whose performanc-es in such classic films as Night of the Hunter and Cape Fear ~ had a connection to Delmarva.
Mitchum’s father, a railroad man from Connecticut, died when his son was two, in a terrible accident that left his widow with three children: Julia, John and Robert. To make ends meet, his mother worked for a newspaper, and the family lived a gypsy’s life, moving from place to place. While young Robert Mit-chum displayed musical talent and once won a poetry contest, he was a natural-born rebel and kept getting expelled from schools wherever the family lived. In time, he and John ended up living on their grandpar-ents’ farm in Felton, Delaware, not too far from here.
The Great Depression had settled in, and it wasn’t long before Mit-chum was expelled from school again. Like thousands of other boys and men with no prospects and no hope, he took to riding the rails, and even spent time on a chain gang in Georgia before he escaped back to Delaware.
Another reason to go back to Felton was Dorothy Spence, who
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Robert Mitchum in Cape Fear with Martin Balsam and Gregory Peck.
Mitchum Slept Herewas 16 to his 18, the daughter of storekeepers in Camden. It was a love that would last through all his stormy life. Robert and Dorothy married and headed to California, where the Mitchum family had settled in Long Beach. Sister Julie, now a performer and singer, talked Robert into joining The Long Beach Players, an acting troupe, and the rest, as they say, is history.
The guy with the barrel chest, the sleepy eyes and the crooked grin was on his way. One of the secrets of his acting is that he made it seem so easy. He could do more with the
expression in his eyes than a lot of actors could do by flying around the room. His under acting defined his greatest macho roles.
If his biographers and his taped interviews could be believed, Mit-chum was as tough as the types he played, and he enjoyed a drink just as much. And the ladies liked him, too. Maybe a little too much.
Depending on whom you believe, it was either a liaison with Ava Gardner or Shirley MacLaine that made Mrs. Mitchum decide she, Bob and their three children needed to get as far away from the fleshpots of Hollywood as possible. Bob may have strayed ... and strayed ... and
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Mitchum Slept Herestrayed, but he always came home to Dorothy.
In the late ’50s, they bought Belmont Farm, an estate of two or three hundred acres with a large house on the Choptank River. Doubtless, they knew the Shore and Talbot County from their Delaware days.
The locals, of course, were thrilled. When the Mitchums planted some landscaping along their driveway, people would dig up the trees and shrubs, and whatever else they could get their hands on, as souvenirs, until, it’s said, Mit-chum hired future Talbot County sheriff Bob Gerlock to patrol the
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cuit court, the late Robert Gerlock would help reporters and other courthouse barnacles while away jury deliberation time with stories from a long and interesting life led on the Shore. I wish I’d paid more attention to the Mitchum stories, because he had them.
“He was a nice guy,” Bob would insist. “Treated everyone who worked for him right. Didn’t have a lot of time for those ten-cent mil-lionaires, though. He liked regular people, because even though he was rich and famous, he was a regular guy. You didn’t want to cross him. When he was drinking he did have a temper. But he loved animals.
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Mitchum Slept Heretwo-fisted drinkers. There’s a story that Mitchum was thrown out of the Tidewater Inn, but in those days, you’d have to get really, really rau-cous to be asked to leave any drink-ing establishment.
Unfortunately, in order to keep going, Mitchum needed to work. And work usually meant going back to California, or to some location somewhere. It could be somewhere as great as the Caribbean, or as mis-
Dorothy and Robert Mitchum, back in California.
erable as the Rockies in the dead of winter. Shootings could drag on forever, and he tried to have Doro-thy and his daughter Trena come stay with him when they could. Also, having Dorothy around meant Robert had to behave himself.
Their stay in Trappe lasted a little over a decade. Mitchum was on location when Dorothy called him and informed him she’d sold the farm. Whether she was just sick and tired of trying to manage a farm and a horse breeding operation plus
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Robert and Dorothy Mitchum with sons Christopher and James, and daughter Petrine meeting at Athens Airport during the filming of the 1959 Robert Aldrich thriller The Angry Hills.
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Award-Winning Artist’s Journey of Discovery
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Bobby Malzone and Sue Stockman in Sue's home studio. Photo by Dick Cooper
Beams from tensor lamps make the colored beads, shards of glass and pieces of silver on Sue Stock-man’s worktable come to life as she talks about her career as a multifac-eted artist. From intricate earrings to large wall-mounted mosaics, she has built a national reputation for design innovations and an ever-
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“My work has moved on and a lot of what I do now is to facilitate kids and adults to create large pieces that are collaborative in nature,” she says. “I teach a lot about coopera-tion and a shared vision. I really like that, whether I am teaching at the Senior Center or painting on silks or mosaic-ing, there is no-where else for me to be.”
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Recently competed mosaic project with Bridget Whited's art students at St. Michaels High School.
Stockman remembers Cubbison, who was her teacher in the mid-1980s, as a very demanding instruc-tor who knew when a student was trying to just get by. “He knew if you spent your full ten hours on a piece. You couldn’t fake it. His critiques were harsh.”
Her life and work partner, Bobby Malzone, a woodworker by trade who now teaches with Stockman, says that he had an early feeling she would win the Cubbison Award and encouraged her through the year-
Sue Stockman long, step-by-step process to enter. She had to send in ten pieces that had been made since 2009, along with reams of documentation. Then she was juried into the final exhibi-tion with five pieces.
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doing? That is not your strongest work.’” As the final jury stage ap-proached, Stockman says she was having second thoughts about the process. It is one thing to have a show where people come in and like your work or don’t, but this was a competition where she was going to be judged. “I had a whole panic at-tack just walking into the building.”
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Sue Stockmantraced back to her childhood when she used to hammer copper wire into forms in the basement of her family home near Denton.
“I started out at Towson as a biology major, but then I found out that I had to learn chemistry, and that sucked. And when we were supposed to work on live animals, I walked out in protest.” That is when she switched to the study of art full time.
Before she graduated from Tow-son, she took a year to study at the Glassell School of Art, part of the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, Texas. “I was working as a bar-tender in Houston and I was making
Stockman’s front yard is also full of her creations.
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Sue Stockman
Stockman’s jewelry is unique.jewelry, so I would wear my work to the bar. It was a nice, upscale place and I would get commissions,” Stockman says. “Before I left Hous-ton, I had a show at the Museum of Fine Arts. It was serendipitous. I went to them to talk about getting work in their gift shop and they said, ‘Oh, are you here for the First Choice Exhibit?’ and I said, ‘Ah, yes, I am.’ It was a very, very successful show. I said, ‘Wow, this is going to work.’ It helped me build my confidence.”
After returning to Towson, and before her graduation, Stockman says she started teaching at the Howard County Center for the Arts. “I am a good teacher, and I love what I do. I love the product, but I also love the journey to get there. Everyone needs a release, some way to process the crazy world we live in. That was a mesh right from the beginning, and you really learn your subject by teaching it.”
Stockman’s first students were adults interested in learning how to make jewelry, but she says that after her children were born she began taking her art into school classrooms. “I had a whole differ-ent affinity towards children once I had one. I have amazing kids, but I never stopped working to raise my kids. I moved them into the studio with me.” She says bring-ing her children into her studio made her take another look at the chemicals she was using to make her art objects. “I didn’t want them to be breathing that in, and maybe I shouldn’t be breathing it either. It really made me clean up my act.”
She has been an active member of the Maryland State Art Council’s Artist-in-Residence program for several years teaching children how to turn abstract ideas into physical forms. She and Malzone start each class project with a brainstorming session to get the children excited about what they are going to make. They try to get all of the students
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involved, from design, to breaking pottery, glass and mirrors, to the final assembly of a mural.
“At first, there is a disbelief that kids will be able to do it themselves, and even after they are finished, they can’t believe they made it,” Malzone says. Stockman adds, “Even after it is up and on the wall, they can’t believe they did it.”
Theresa Colvin, executive director of the Maryland State Arts Council, says she has known Stockman as artist and teacher for more than 15 years and owns some of her jewelry creations. “She has a wonderful warmth about her. Her strength is her sense of compassion and empathy with the students and her willingness to help them along. She makes sure that the students are well engaged in the process and that they feel successful. She’s a great lady.”
As for their travel plans, Stock-man and Malzone are heading for Barcelona, Spain, in April and May. The city is known around the world for the major influences of mosaic
artist and architect Antoni Gaudi. “The real ‘winning’ thing was as soon as we started dreaming about winning the Cubbison and going to Barcelona, we realized we could go even if she didn’t win,” Malzone says.
“At first it was about going to Barcelona, a place that I want to go to and an artist’s work that I want to see,” Stockman says. “But then it became an exercise in identify-ing the next place I have to go to be inspired.”
When they return, the next phase of winning the Cubbison Award kicks in. Stockman has to prepare an art exhibit to be shown in 2014 to let the world see what she learned on her latest journey.
For more information about Sue Stockman and her art, visit www.suestockman.com.
Dick Cooper is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist. He and his wife, Pat, live and sail in St. Michaels, Maryland. He can be contacted at [email protected].
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Tred Avon Players lead off their 2013 season with the exciting com-edy mystery, The Spider’s Web by Agatha Christie. This witty Brit-ish mystery is directed by Jay Juppé, with assistant director Su-san Patterson. It’s a classic coun-try house whodunit, highlighting an array of delightfully suspicious Brits along with a zany cover-up attempt for a murder. Agatha Christie spins a web of deceit that will intrigue and entertain with a spark of comedy featuring engag-ing characters and witty dialogue. She proves again that a web of deceit can be humorous yet fatal. It’s an intriguing comedy murder mystery performed by the talented cast of Charles Baker, David Fos-ter, Claire Gross, Bruce Grove, Norman Hackland, Anna Kusinitz, Raine Lewis, Leigh Marquess, Erik Murray, and Nina Quinn Wahl.
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Monsieur Renardby
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boys, expected boys, he’d had girls, and so the fox had, over time, be-come little more than a fairy tale. Tell us the story of the fox, Daddy, tell us about Monsieur Renard and his famous glass slippers! But the girls were getting older now, seemed less interested in bedtime stories, more interested in privacy. When Atkins had first found their
doors shut against him, he’d been a little hurt by it, a little proud, and, strangely, a little ashamed as well, as if in some way he could not ex-plain he knew he deserved to be kept from their rooms. In his lone-liness, he’d taken to walking again at night, and the walking, like the footprints themselves, had led him ~ naturally enough, he supposed ~ back to the fox.
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the fox. No, in point of fact, the fox that
night had been as much a phantom, a figure of doubtful substance, as the magical Monsieur Renard who still, he hoped, on occasion, danced through his daughters’ dreams.
Atkins stopped, looked out across the lawns toward the distant, cumulous-shaped shadow mark-ing the edge of the subdivision, the remains of what had once been (or so he liked to imagine) a sizeable forest. Several houses down some-one had left their sprinkler on, the neighbor’s security lights catching the nearer end of its sweep so that,
regularly, the spill of water fell into view, then seemed to rise again and disappear back up into itself ~ the sound of the water’s approach al-ways just overlapping the sight of its retreat.
Atkins closed his eyes, the slow pulse of the sprinkler’s fall remind-ing him of his childhood, the street he’d grown up on. He wondered if children there still played in the sprinklers, still experienced those sudden rapturous chills, the mini-rainbows, the muddy lawn. He tried to recall his own daughters playing in a sprinkler, but the best he could come up with was an early trip to a neighbor’s pool. Recently Glynnis had been after him to put in a pool of their own, and Atkins now
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thought about this, remembered the way his wife had looked when he first met her, the dark, sun-freckled skin, the golden-red hair. Atkins loved Glynnis, loved the way she looked now as much as he did the way she’d looked then ~ still he wouldn’t have minded seeing her in a bikini again.
Which made him think the pool might not be such a bad idea.
But better not to think about that.
Atkins began to walk again. As he drew even with the sprinkler, the scent of water on the warm night air made him think of the marshy area that had once lain behind Mead-
Monsieur Renard owbrook Drive, the way the spring peepers there had sprinkled the night with their calls. River Station had been new then, raw, its edges still in field and forest. He thought about this, thought about those nights. Was it because Glynnis had been pregnant then, was that why everything had seemed so differ-ent, so glorious, the nights so full of stars?
But of course he’d been young then too, and youth, he now real-ized (thinking of his daughters), bathed daily in a sort of rude glory, treating it as if it were only their due. And of course there was time too, the passage of time, the gloss of time.
The distance between then and
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now loomed suddenly, and Atkins had to clear his throat, cough a little, before he felt like walking again. Still he couldn’t help think-ing about the old days, the way his arms and legs had sometimes filled with what seemed an almost tangible energy, the need he had felt, the desire, to test that energy’s limits. And so, on many nights, af-ter Glynn had gone to bed, he had gone for a walk.
River Station’s streets had run straight, true, and almost entirely houseless then, through fields still stitched with the previous year’s corn-stubble. Walking down those streets at night had been something like walking through a dream, the sense of power it gave you ~ the feeling that you could go wherever you liked, do whatever you liked ~ tempered by an underlying and vaguely alarming impression that something was not quite right with the landscape, not quite real.
Nowadays, of course, he had to be more circumspect, avert his eyes from lighted windows, exposed ga-rage bays, avoid intruding upon
his neighbors’ privacy. He spent most of his time studying feature-less lawns or the surface of the road before him. Not surprisingly, he often found his eyes drawn to the forest edge, the sky beyond it, though even these seemed dimin-ished now, the forest little more than a line of trees marking the boundary between River Station and the new subdivision next door, the stars thinned by all the devel-opment on Route 50.
Atkins shook his head, reminded himself that all of this was to the good, that the papers he’d writ-ten on those restaurants and gas stations had paid for the life he’d given the girls out here, would someday, he knew ~ he had never been so sure of anything in his life ~ pay for their college, their wed-dings, anything and everything they could ever want or need. Just as he had once known that he could run for his high school team be-yond what his body told him was possible, beyond what was perhaps even good for him, he now knew with an even greater certainty that,
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Monsieur Renardregardless of cost, he would always do whatever it took to secure the health and happiness of his girls, his family, the life they had created for themselves out here in River Station. Anything and everything, including most clearly his own self, could be used up, burned off, de-pleted, in pursuit of this most po-tent, this most necessary goal.
At times Atkins liked to think this certainty had given him some-thing of an edge at work. No mat-ter how tense things got, no matter how difficult the negotiations, he always knew what he was going to do. Where others might hesitate, Atkins went for the kill.
Rather like the fox.He saw again the disordered
swirl of bloody snow, the strange icy protrusions.
It had been their first snow in the new house, and Atkins had been anxious to get out in it, go walking. But Glynnis had had something for him to do, he wasn’t sure what now, something to do with the room they were preparing for the baby, he guessed, but whatever it was, it had kept him home for several nights. By the time he did get out, the snow was not as deep as it had been, nor as fresh, and it had acquired a shiny surface that glistened in the moon-light and made cracking noises as he walked through it. The memory of those startling cracking sounds
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brought back the crispness of that night, the look of his breath in the air before him. The moon, as he remembered it, had been big and full, and it had filled the night with an unnatural, almost day-like radi-ance.
Atkins stopped for a moment. Had it really been that bright? Could he really have seen things that well?
Yet that was the way he remem-bered it ~ the dark distant shadow of the forest, the sky above reduced to woolly blackness by the over-bearing, too-brilliant moon, and spreading out from his feet like the surface of some immense and frozen lake, the reflective, echoing snow.
Once again his mind conjured the little pillars of ice.
He had first come upon them at the end of Sylvan Run, in a stretch of ground that would someday (he was fairly certain of his geography) be part of the Willises’ front yard. At first he’d tried to tell himself they were just corn stalks, that he was looking at an isolated set of corn stalks protruding several inches above the snow. But how to account for the translucence, the way the moon seemed to invest these things with light?
Atkins was embarrassed now to remember the uncertainty with which he had first approached the
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small, standing wands, as if they might cause him harm, but when he finally had, he’d found they weren’t corn stalks at all but thin, fragile columns of ice ~ glassy, hollow, open at the top. Standing directly over one of the things and staring into its interior, he’d espied a small, dog-like print embedded in the snow at its base. There had been something at once both lovely and grotesque about this discov-ery, as if the animal that had cre-ated the track had left not just its footprint but a portion of the bone that had made it as well.
Later, long after the snow had melted, Atkins would spend a suc-cession of nights lying in his bed trying to understand how such an unlikely set of phenomena could have come into existence. The fox, he would decide (and he never doubted for a moment that it was a fox and not just someone’s pet), had passed through the snow when it was still fresh and deep. Wher-ever the animal had sunk its foot into the snow, a thin layer of the stuff ~ coming into contact with
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But on that strange, moonlit night, Atkins had known none of this. He stood in the middle of a snowy field, a strand of other-worldly ice forms strung out before him like lamps on a garden path, and he felt young and alive and in
the presence of something utterly unlike anything he had ever en-countered before.
Of course, the things had been ridiculously easy to follow. Stay-ing always to one side of the path the fox had taken, careful not to tread upon the evidence of its passing, Atkins had followed the little columns of ice over the snowy field. Though he’d never thought about such things before, he found himself noticing the way the tracks suggested a mind at work, the fox stopping from time to time as if to consider its options, then hurry-ing off again, often along a differ-ent course. At one point he’d been delighted to discover the snow on either side of a stand of broom
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grass pocked with ill-aimed spurts of urine. A male! he’d thought, and ~ momentarily a boy again ~ seen himself fur-capped and snow-shoed, tracking some larger beast across frozen Arctic wastes.
And then he’d come upon the place where the fox had caught and killed something, a mouse or maybe a mole. Had the ice forms changed as they approached this spot, had their number increased, their angle to the ground grown more acute? They should have, Atkins supposed, though all he re-membered for sure was the unex-pected discovery of the two holes dug in the snow, the one shallow, tentative, the other deep and true. Around the edges of the latter had lain signs of the incident that had concluded its excavation: some few bits of hair, one or two drops of blood, and lying off to one side, like a forgotten shoe, a single tiny foot. All of it testifying, rather elo-quently Atkins had thought, to an event that must have taken place
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Atkins stood and looked at the flag, glorious in its bath of light. Appropriate that he should find his walk ending here, at the Willises’, the very place where memory told him he had first come upon the fox’s sign. But was memory right? He looked at the yard again, con-sidered the surrounding proper-ties, tried to picture the original sweep of the land. Had they put their septic field out here, was that why the Willises’ lawn seemed to rise slightly above those of its neighbors? Or was it the flagpole, installed along with its floodlights sometime after 9/11, had they brought in soil for that, tried to create a level place?
Atkins studied the lay of the land again, uncertain, then, frustrated, turned and began to make his way home. Though he knew he shouldn’t be, that it was silly, he also knew a part of him was annoyed with Frank
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As he walked along, Atkins be-gan to entertain thoughts of the side door, the light in his kitchen, maybe a snack before bed. Some-times, at night, to help himself go to sleep, Atkins liked to think about River Station ~ the name still mildly romantic to him, sug-gestive, after all these years. Be-neath a starry sky, he would pic-ture a man walking through a landscape that in some ways re-sembled River Station and in some ways did not. The road the man walked down always wound its way over hill and dale like something painted on the walls of a little girl’s room. Sooner or later, in the sky overhead, a group of stars would coalesce into the face of a wise, old fox. Sometimes, just as Atkins was drifting off to sleep, the fox would seem to wink.
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The Narrows Caféby
Margot MillerWhen customers come into The
Narrows Café, Corrine puts away her book, washes her hands, and gets ready to fix them food or a cup of cof-fee and to pass the time of day. Life is slow here, but folks still come to get away from the clamoring din of Baltimore and the hot air of Wash-ington, DC. The people who live here still operate on an internal clock that rises and falls with the tides.
The Bay Hundred is a thin place, a narrow strip of land along the Chesa-peake Bay’s eastern shore, between the bay itself and the Choptank River.
The café sits on the Bay Hundred side of Knapp’s Narrows, which is at the top of Tilghman Island and a place where the tide rushes be-tween the bay and the river.
Rivers in these parts are really only inlets of the bay and they’re tidal, so they’re not really rivers at all, but cuts into the land made when the bay was formed. At the narrows, the current rushes east-ward on the rising tide and tears back out on the drop.
A Hundred was the name for a place in colonial times big enough for one hundred fighting men, one militia unit. Tilghman Island isn’t as isolated as it once was, but it’s still a long way from anywhere.
Corrine grew up here, along with her brother and a boatload of cous-ins. She lives in the apartment above the café with her husband, Mike. They rent from Eddie Dil-worth, who runs the bar and the marina on the other side of the café.
Mike is a waterman and a farm-er, working in his daddy’s and Corrine’s daddy’s fields. They got married after she took classes and got an AA degree up at Chesapeake College. Her daddy said that was a waste of time, but her mama was happy she did it, since she liked reading and all.
With what she makes at the café, they’re doing okay, since there are so many trendy come-heres who buy espresso and lattes. Corrine’s mama is deaf and doesn’t speak, except in sign language. She makes pies and croissants and muffins for the cafe. They sell a lot on the bakery side. Her mama makes the sandwiches, too, and Corrine does the coffee, the housekeeping, the books, and handles the register.
The family goes to church right here ~ well, just across the bridge, in the village ~ and the church council meets at the café once a month on Monday nights. Last summer they were trying to get younger people
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interested in serving on the council, and since Corrine was always sort of at the meetings, what with fixing them their coffee and serving them their pie, she allowed as to how she might be interested. They had a closed meeting about the election process, and it was announced in church that they’d picked Mike.
Corrine felt her face go red right there in church.
She nudged Mike as they were walking out afterward, and in be-tween people congratulating him, she asked, “Why didn’t you tell them I was interested? You knew I’d told them. Why didn’t you say I’d spoken up first?”
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“They didn’t ask me that,” he said, looking down at her (he’s six-foot-three).
“But you knew!”She looked at him, but he was
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“It’s not my decision,” he said. “They asked me.”
He took someone’s hand, shook it, and smiled. Michael is kind of shy. He nodded his dark head of curls and took another proffered hand. Corrine could see how proud he was by his eyes and his shoul-ders, with his chest filled out, but she was hurt.
“And you couldn’t’ve said, ‘I think you should ask Corrine, she’s the one with the education and the interest?’”
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Well, that did it. Reminding him that he hadn’t gone to college shat-tered a habit they’d had, a tacit un-derstanding that had carried them along. He didn’t speak all during coffee hour and pushed to go home early, and Corrine wasn’t saying no. He sulked in front of the tele-vision, watching baseball all that afternoon, and she went for a walk. They stepped around each other like that for a few days, him acting as if it had never happened, and her working out how to let it go.
It was Corrine’s mama who brought her around. Well, it was watching her working in her mea-sured way, her silent indifference to this small drama, transparent in the calm simplicity of her solitude, that made Corrine realize she’d best be getting back to whatever it was she was reading, if that’s what she wanted to do, and her work ~ and just leave it.
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have to put the chairs and tables back before they could sit down ~ either that, or change to a different night.
The Narrows Café was first pub-lished in Salomé, April 30th, 2007 and is included in Margot Miller’s collection of flash fiction, Waking Accidentally in the Dark, 2010.
Miller lives in Easton, where she is a fiction editor for The Delmarva Review and she maintains a paint-ing studio called Occasional Art, because it is occasionally open, generally a half-dozen first Fri-days a year. Her website is www.margotmiller.co (not dot com).
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Eggs-cellent NewsSome nights you just want
something to eat that is light, fill-ing and easy to make. The star of the breakfast table can also dazzle at dinner and shine at lunch. An easy evening meal starring an om-elet, quiche, quesadilla or eggs Benedict is an unexpected ~ and delicious ~ delight!
Once considered a nutritional no-no, eggs were thought to raise blood cholesterol levels and in-crease the risk of heart disease. Recent clinical studies scramble that old thinking. A Harvard study with more than 100,000 subjects found no significant difference in cardiovascular disease risk be-tween those consuming less than one egg per week and those con-suming one egg per day.
An egg is 70 calories packed with 6 grams of high-quality pro-tein, 13 essential vitamins and minerals, and even antioxidants. When you eat eggs for breakfast, you will feel more full for a longer period of time.
THE PERFECT OMELETBecause making omelets is a
quick process, make sure you have all your ingredients and equip-ment ready. This recipe makes one omelet. You can make these “to order” for each person by adding fillings of choice.
2 large eggs1 T. milkSea salt and freshly ground pepper to taste1 T. butterFillings of your choice*
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Beat the eggs and milk in a small bowl with a whisk. Beat in the salt and pepper.
Heat the butter over medium-high heat in an 8” non-stick skillet. The butter should be sizzling, but not brown. As the butter foams, tilt the skillet to coat the bottom.
Pour the egg mixture into the skillet. While sliding back and forth rapidly over the heat, quickly stir the eggs with a rubber spatula or the handle of a wooden spoon to spread them continuously over the bottom of the skillet as they thicken.
When thickened, let stand over the heat for a few seconds to lightly brown the bottom. Do not overcook ~ the omelet will continue to cook after being folded.
Add the filling to the middle of the omelet. Using a spatula, fold the portion of the omelet closest to you just to the center. Allow for a portion of the omelet to slide up the side of the skillet. Invert the omelet onto a warm plate, tilting the skillet and letting the flat unfolded side of the omelet slide onto the plate. Flip folded edge of omelet over the flat portion on the warm plate.
*Before adding eggs ~ cook chopped ham, finely chopped bell pepper, spring onions, spinach, tomatoes, summer squash, fresh herbs or a combination of the above ingredients.
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*Before folding the omelet, sprinkle with shredded mozzarella cheese, Swiss cheese or cheddar. I also like to warm my plates in a 200° oven.
MOCK EGGS BENEDICTHere is a similar but simplified
dish to classic eggs Benedict, which requires poaching eggs and making real hollandaise sauce. While they aren’t the same, this is a great ad-dition to any “breakfast-for-dinner” menu.
3 T. butter3 T. flour1/2 t. sea salt3 cups milk1-1/2 cups grated Swiss cheese1 cup diced ham4 drops Tabasco12 large eggs, hard-boiled, peeled and quartered6 English muffins, split and lightly toastedPaprika
Melt the butter in a large, heavy saucepan over medium heat. Whisk
in the flour and salt. Cook, whisk-ing constantly, until smooth for 1 minute. Reduce heat and gradually whisk in the milk. Cook, whisking constantly, until thick and bub-bling.
Remove the sauce from the heat and stir in the cheese. When the cheese has melted and the sauce is smooth, gently stir in the ham, sea-son with Tabasco, and then fold in the eggs.
Serve the hot egg mixture over the toasted English muffins, sprin-kle with paprika and serve very hot.
Tip: To hard boil your eggs, you must start with room-temperature eggs. This will ensure that they don’t crack during the boiling pro-cess. Take them from the refrig-erator at least 30 minutes prior to boiling.
Place the eggs in a saucepan that is large enough to hold all the eggs in one layer. Cover with water and bring to a boil and cook for 1 min-ute. Remove from heat, cover and let stand for 10 minutes. Run cold water over the eggs until they are
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cool enough to handle. Crack all over and gently peel.
EGGS BENEDICT with SPINACH and ARTICHOKE
Serves 4This is a great combination of
textures and taste! It also works for brunch or a light dinner.
1 9-oz. pkg. frozen artichoke hearts, defrosted1-1/2 t. cornstarch1/2 cup milk1-1/2 t. Dijon mustard2 t. lemon juiceSea salt and ground pepper to tasteVegetable cooking spray
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8 large eggs4 English muffins (I prefer whole grain), toasted2 cups fresh baby spinachPaprika for garnish
Place artichokes in a microwave-safe bowl. Cover and microwave for 2 minutes, or until warm.
Combine cornstarch with milk in a small bowl and whisk until the cornstarch dissolves. Pour into a small saucepan over medium heat and whisk until thick. Remove from heat and add mustard, lemon juice, sea salt and pepper. Stir until smooth.
Coat a large non-stick skillet with cooking spray and place over medi-um-high heat until hot. Crack each
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egg into hot skillet and cook until set. Slide a spatula under each egg and flip. Cook another 1 to 2 min-utes.
Place two toasted English muffin halves on each plate. Top each with a layer of spinach leaves, one egg, a few artichoke hearts, one-fourth of the sauce and garnish with paprika.
SOUTHWESTERN EGG QUESADILLAS
Serves 6Kids love quesadillas and tucking
scrambled eggs inside gives them a tasty protein boost!
Vegetable cooking spray6 large eggs3 scallions, chopped
1 tomato, choppedFreshly ground pepper6 8-inch whole wheat tortillas1 cup shredded Monterey Jack cheeseGarnish:Sour creamFresh or jarred salsaCilantro leaves (fresh)
Coat a large non-stick skillet with cooking spray and heat to medium-high. Combine the eggs with the scallions, tomatoes and pepper in a bowl to blend. Pour this mixture into the hot pan and gently scram-ble with a rubber spatula until cooked thoroughly; set aside.
Coat another large skillet with cooking spray and heat to medium-
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high. Add one tortilla. Layer with a third of the cheese and one third of the scrambled egg mixture and top with another tortilla. Heat the quesadilla until the bottom is gold-en brown, about 3 minutes. Flip to brown the other side. Repeat with the remaining ingredients.
Cut the quesadillas in half and garnish with sour cream, salsa and cilantro.
GLUTEN-FREE VEGGIE QUICHE
Serves 6This is a great meal for vegetar-
ian friends. The hash browns make a crisp crust that is gluten free. Great with a salad or fresh fruit on the side.
2 cups shredded frozen hash brown potatoes (defrosted and squeezed dry)1 egg white from 1 large egg, beatenVegetable cooking spray1 medium onion, chopped1 medium red pepper, chopped1 cup broccoli florets, chopped1/2 cup Swiss cheese, shredded6 large eggs1/2 cup milk
Heat oven to 375°.Toss potatoes with egg white
in a bowl until thoroughly mixed. Coat a 9-inch pie plate with cook-ing spray and press potato mixture
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evenly against the bottom and sides of the pie plate. Bake for 12 to 15 minutes until set. Remove from oven and reduce heat to 350°.
Coat a medium non-stick skillet with cooking spray and heat to me-dium-high. Sauté the onion until brown. Add red pepper and broc-coli and cook until soft, 3 to 4 min-utes. Layer vegetables and cheese over the pre-baked crust.
In a bowl, beat 6 eggs thoroughly with milk and pour over veggie mix-ture. Return the quiche to the oven and bake for 45 to 60 minutes, or until eggs are firm.
Slice into wedges and serve.
BREAKFAST CASSEROLEWe all take different fond memo-
ries from our childhood. My mom’s breakfast casseroles remind me of her comforting presence in the kitchen. They are so easy to make and must be made one day ahead.
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Any assortment of meats or vegeta-bles can be added. This is also deli-cious with baked apples and bagels.
1 box seasoned croutons 2 cups cheddar cheese, shredded1 pound sausage, cooked and drained6 eggs2 cups milk1-1/2 t. dry mustard
Coat a 9 x 13-inch pan with cook-ing spray and layer ingredients as follows:
1st layer: box of croutons2nd layer: 2 cups shredded cheese3rd layer: sausage4th layer: Combine eggs, milk
and mustard in a bowl and whisk together and pour on top of the sausage.
Cover and refrigerate overnight. Remove from refrigerator and bring to room temperature, about 30 minutes before baking. Bake at 350° for 45 minutes.
PAT CARROLL’S QUICK CRAB QUICHE
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1 9-inch deep-dish pie shell; bake and cool3 eggs, beaten1 8-oz. carton sour cream1 cup (4 oz.) sharp cheddar cheese, shredded
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1 can fried onion rings, crushed (optional)9 oz. crab meat seasoned with Worcestershire sauce
Bake the pie shell.Combine the beaten eggs, sour
cream and shredded cheese in a bowl. Stir in the onions, then fold in the crab meat that has been sea-soned with Worcestershire sauce.
Spoon the filling into the baked pastry shell.
Bake at 350° for 35 minutes or until set. Let stand for 10 minutes before serving.
FORGOTTEN COOKIES(Easy Meringue Cookies)
The story goes that the acciden-
tal creator of this recipe was mak-ing her favorite meringue cookies one day, and had just put them in the oven when the telephone rang. She turned off the oven as she left the room to answer the call, and forgot all about the cookies. The next morning, when she remem-bered and opened the oven, the cookies were perfectly cooked.
3 egg whites3/4 cup sugar1/2 t. vanilla extract
Preheat the oven to 350°. Beat egg whites until almost stiff. Add sugar and continue beating un-til very stiff (but not dry ~ do not overbeat). If using vanilla extract,
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add that near the end of beating the egg whites.
Cover your cookie sheet with parchment paper or a silicone mat (such as Silpat). Drop the me-ringue mixture by teaspoonfuls onto the cookie sheet, and place them in the oven. Turn the oven off. Do not open the oven door for 4 to 5 hours or overnight.
Variations: To bake the cook-ies in the “conventional” way put them in a pre-heated 225° oven for approximately 1-1/2 hours.
Remove the cookies to cooling racks and allow them to cool com-pletely.
Another way to do it would be to bake the cookies in a pre-heated 350° oven for 13 to 15 minutes, or until they are light golden brown. Remove the cookies from the oven and allow them to cool on the bak-ing sheet for 5 minutes, then re-move them to cooling racks. Allow to cool completely. This recipe makes approximately 55 cookies.
A long-time resident of Oxford, Pamela Meredith Doyle, formerly Denver’s NBC Channel 9 Children’s Chef, now teaches both adult and children’s cooking classes on the south shore of Massachusetts, where she lives with her husband and son.
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Queen Anne’s County The history of Queen Anne’s County dates back to the earliest Colonial
settlements in Maryland. Small hamlets began appearing in the northern portion of the county in the 1600s. Early communities grew up around transportation routes, the rivers and streams, and then roads and eventually railroads. Small towns were centers of economic and social activity and evolved over the years from thriving centers of tobacco trade to communities boosted by the railroad boom.
Queenstown was the original county seat when Queen Anne’s County was created in 1706, but that designation was passed on to Centreville in 1782. It’s location was important during the 18th century, because it is near a creek that, during that time, could be navigated by tradesmen. A hub for shipping and receiving, Queenstown was attacked by English troops during the War of 1812.
Construction of the Federal-style courthouse in Centreville began in 1791 and is the oldest courthouse in continuous use in the state of Maryland. Today, Centreville is the largest town in Queen Anne’s County. With its relaxed lifestyle and tree-lined streets, it is a classic example of small town America.
The Stevensville Historic District, also known as Historic Stevensville, is a national historic district in downtown Stevensville, Queen Anne’s County. It contains roughly 100 historic structures, and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It is located primarily along East Main Street, a portion of Love Point Road, and a former section of Cockey Lane.
The Chesapeake Exploration Center, located in Chester at Kent Narrows, houses a hands-on interactive exhibit providing and overview of the Chesapeake Bay region’s heritage, resources and culture. The Exploration Center serves as Queen Anne’s County’s official welcome center.
Queen Anne’s County is also home to the Chesapeake Bay Environmental Center (formerly Horsehead Wetland Center), located in Grasonville. The CBEC is a 500-acre preserve just 15 minutes from the Chesapeake Bay Bridge. Over 200 species of birds have been recorded in the area.
Embraced by miles of scenic Chesapeake Bay waterways and graced with acres of pastoral rural landscape, Queen Anne’s County offers a relaxing environment for visitors and locals alike.
For more information about Queen Anne’s County, visit www.qac.org.
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Caroline County is the very definition of a rural community. For more than 300 years, the county’s economy has been based on “market” agriculture.
Caroline County was created in 1773 from Dorchester and Queen Anne’s counties. The county was named for Lady Caroline Eden, the wife of Maryland’s last colonial governor, Robert Eden (1741 - 1784).
Denton, the county seat, was situated on a point between two ferry boat landings. Much of the business district in Denton was wiped out by the fire of 1863.
Following the Civil War, Denton’s location about fifty miles up the Choptank River from the Chesapeake Bay enabled it to become an important shipping point for agricultural products. Denton became a regular port-of-call for Baltimore-based steamer lines in the latter half of the 19th century.
Preston was the site of three Underground Railroad stations during the 1840s and 1850s. One of those stations was operated by Harriet Tubman’s parents, Benjamin and Harriet Ross. When Tubman’s parents were exposed by a traitor, she smuggled them to safety in Wilmington, Delaware.
Linchester Mill, just east of Preston, can be traced back to 1681, and possibly as early as 1670. The mill is the last of 26 water-powered mills to operate in Caroline County and is currently being restored. The long-term goals include rebuilding the millpond, rehabilitating the mill equipment, restoring the miller’s dwelling, and opening the historic mill on a scheduled basis.
Federalsburg is located on Marshyhope Creek in the southern-most part of Caroline County. Agriculture is still a major portion of the industry in the area; however, Federalsburg is rapidly being discovered and there is a noticeable influx of people, expansion and development. Ridgely has found a niche as the “Strawberry Capital of the World.” The present streetscape, lined with stately Victorian homes, reflects the transient prosperity during the countywide canning boom (1895-1919). Hanover Foods, formerly an enterprise of Saulsbury Bros. Inc., for more than 100 years, is the last of more than 250 food processors that once operated in the Caroline County region.
Points of interest in Caroline County include the Museum of Rural Life in Denton, Adkins Arboretum near Ridgely, and the Mason-Dixon Crown Stone in Marydel. To contact the Caroline County Office of Tourism, call 410-479-0655 or visit their website at www.tourcaroline.com.
Caroline County A Perspective
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Kent County and Chestertown at a Glance
Kent County is a treasury of early American history. Its principal towns and back roads abound with beautiful old homes and historic landmarks.
The area was first explored by Captain John Smith in 1608. Kent County was founded in 1642 and named for the shire in England that was the home of many of Kent’s earliest colonists. When the first legislature assembled in 1649, Kent County was one of two counties in the colony, thus making it the oldest on the Eastern Shore. It extended from Kent Island to the present boundary.
The first settlement, New Yarmouth, thrived for a time and, until the founding of Chestertown, was the area’s economic, social and religious center.
Chestertown, the county seat, was founded in 1706 and served as a port of entry during colonial times. A town rich in history, its attractions include a blend of past and present. Its brick sidewalks and attractive antiques stores, restaurants and inns beckon all to wander through the historic district and enjoy homes and places with architecture ranging from the Georgian mansions of wealthy colonial merchants to the elaborate style of the Victorian era.
Second largest district of restored 18th-century homes in Maryland, Chestertown is also home to Washington College, the nation’s tenth oldest liberal arts college, founded in 1782. Washington College was also the only college that was given permission by George Washington for the use of his name, as well as given a personal donation of money.
The beauty of the Eastern Shore and its waterways, the opportunity for boating and recreation, the tranquility of a rural setting and the ambiance of living history offer both visitors and residents a variety of pleasing experiences. A wealth of events and local entertainment make a visit to Chestertown special at any time of the year.
For more information about events and attractions in Kent County, contact the Kent County Visitor Center at 410-778-0416, visit www.kentcounty.com or e-mail [email protected]. For informa-tion about the Historical Society of Kent County, call 410-778-3499 or visit www.kentcountyhistory.org/geddes.php. For information specific to Chestertown visit www.chestertown.com.
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TIDEWATERGARDENINGby K. Marc Teffeau, Ph.D.
The January Landscape
The Mayan Calendar - if you are reading this, the world didn’t end.
Happy 2013! If you are reading this, then I guess the Mayan calen-dar was wrong and the end of the world as we know it did not occur. So, let’s start thinking about sur-viving the winter gardening blues and getting excited for the spring.
Since I’m not able to prognosti-cate the type of winter we will have with conventional methods such as a bum knee or the width of the woolly bear stripes, I will assume that we are moving into a “normal” January for us. December was fairly mild and the nice aspect was that we received a decent amount of rainfall in November and De-cember to help recharge the water levels in the landscape.
Even if we have a fairly mild January, we will still be stuck in-side looking out at the dreary land-scape. If we have a few days of nice weather, however, there are still a few things you can do in the yard. If you have a grape vine in the garden, January is a good time to prune it.
Make sure that your pruning shears are sharp and clean.
If you have any questions about pruning your grape vine, there are a couple of instructional videos on YouTube that you can watch that you might find helpful. They will show you the basic methods. I find that the four-armed Kniffin system is the easiest to use.
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If you have apple or pear trees in the yard, January is a good time to cut off sucker shoots from around the base of the trees. You can also prune apple trees now. If you
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do, be sure to remove the pruned branches and place them in the trash or take to the landfill to avoid the spread of diseases.
If we have a dry spell during January and the ground isn’t fro-zen, this would be a good time to till the vegetable garden and let it lay fallow. This practice will be beneficial if you had terrible in-sect problems this past year, par-ticularly grubs, squash vine borers, and other soil insects. Tilling your garden in winter can help to con-trol these insects. Many of them burrow down in the ground and spend the winter in a larval stage. Tilling can bring them closer to the surface and the low temperatures can kill them. Don’t till the gar-den if the soil is too wet, but if it is workable, this can help to start the season off clean.
The one plant that you can put into the vegetable garden now is garlic. Poke 4-inch-deep holes in the ground with the end of a rake and drop in the garlic cloves.
If you have a wood stove, don’t throw out that ash! If you are burning wood, save that ash until spring and spread it in your gar-den. Scatter it around your car-rots, radishes, and onions to keep root maggots away. It will also im-prove the flavor of your potatoes.
Wood ash is high in potassium and will raise the pH of soil. Of course, use some common sense here when handling the ashes.
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January is a good time to plant garlic.
Place them in a metal bucket or container, outside of the house or garage so as not to have the cool-ing embers be a fire source. Every year we hear about folks who acci-dentally burn down their house or garage because they put still-hot embers in the wrong type of con-tainer, or didn’t move them away from the house.
When I was a county extension agent, every winter I would receive calls concerning insects in the fire-wood. Homeowners often like to keep a supply of firewood indoors, stored close to the fireplace or woodstove. If the wood is old and has been stacked outside for some time, insect problems can occur. Dead and decaying wood is a favor-ite overwintering place for insects and spiders. These insects pose no problem until you bring the wood inside. Then, exposed to the warm house temperatures, they become active and start to move around. Given any time at all, these crea-tures will emerge from the wood and come crawling out to disturb your peace of mind.
Beetles, wasps, bees, ants, moths, flies, various spiders, mites, centipedes, millipedes and crickets are some of the pests of-ten found in firewood. These in-sects and spiders seldom become established in the house, but oc-casionally they will appear in large enough numbers to cause concern. Will they bite or chew the house down? Probably not. The majority of insects that feed on wood, attack it only in its unseasoned form, so they’re not likely to start chomp-ing on some prized piece of living room furniture.
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wanted critters is prevention. Keeping a two or three year sup-ply of wood on hand increases the risk of insect infestation. Logs cut during the fall or early winter
are less likely to become infested than those cut in the spring. The wood should be seasoned to burn efficiently and safely, but firewood that sits around for several years may rot and become infested.
It’s best not to let firewood rest directly on the ground for too long. Rotate and re-stack piles of fire-wood that have been in one place for a year or more, and keep it cov-ered and dry. Indoors, bring in only a one or two day supply.
If you see insects or spiders, suck them up with the vacuum cleaner or whack them with the broom or fly swatter. A pyrethrum aerosol insecticide labeled for the general household control of crawling and flying insects can also be used. For
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a heavily infested log, leave it out-doors until the moment you are ready to throw it on the fire.
Under no circumstances should you apply an insecticide to the woodpile outside, or the wood you bring inside. Besides being a waste of money because it doesn’t work, it can also endanger your health. Pesticides give off hazardous gases when they burn. Treat the pest ~ not the wood!
I am going to make an assump-tion that we are not going to get away without having some snow or ice in the January forecast. When sidewalks and driveways ice up, people reach for the deicing salts. Use these materials very carefully to avoid any environmental issues.
To prevent damage to your home and the environment, chooses a deicer carefully. Do not use plant fertilizers or products that contain urea because, if applied incorrect-ly, the nitrogen and phosphorous in them has the potential to harm local streams and the Bay.
The runoff created by melting ice and snow from one small side-walk may not cause much harm, but the cumulative effects across the region can create harmful lev-els of salts and nutrients that even-tually pollute the Bay. Another problem with using fertilizer is that as it breaks down it makes a mess and you can end up tracking the fertilizer into the house and onto the carpet.
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just that ~ salts ~ that can have a bad impact on soils if they build up. Once the soil in a landscape bed or turf area is contaminated with too much salt, the only solu-tion is to remove it and replace it with fresh soil.
Wondering what to do with your Christmas tree after the season has ended? Recycle it! As a result of our landfills filling up so quickly, many of them are no longer accept-ing yard waste ~ which includes your Christmas tree.
To recycle your Christmas tree, you can put it to use in the gar-den in a number of ways. Sever the boughs and place the small-er ones, curved end up, around plantings as mulch. Or, build a teepee-like protective canopy over laurel, azaleas and other tender plants to ward off snow. You can strip the needles from the remain-ing branches and scatter them
There are many ways to recycle that Christmas tree!
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Use your discarded tree as a bird feeder by tying pieces of suet, strings of popcorn and other mor-sels of food to the tree. Hang a pinecone covered with a mixture of peanut butter and bird seed in the tree. You can also stake the en-tire Christmas tree in the snow as a windbreak to the windward side of tender broad-leafed evergreens.
A number of municipalities will now pick up the trees, chip them, and provide gardeners with the re-sulting mulch, free of charge. Last year, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service used recycled Christmas
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trees to create duck nesting habitat on Poplar Island. Check the Star-Democrat or contact the town of Easton to see if that program will again be offered this year.
During January you can start the seeds of slow-growing flowers like alyssum, coleus, dusty miller, geraniums, impatiens, marigolds, petunias, phlox, portulaca, salvia, vinca and verbena. If you start gerbera seed now, it will be ready to bloom in June.
You can also start tuberous be-gonias and caladiums now to be set out in the spring. Set the roots in pots or shallow boxes of a soil mix-ture ~ 1/3 sand, 1/3 peat and 1/3 loamy soil. Cover them with 1 inch of this soil mixture. Keep the pots
moist, but not wet, and in good light at 65°. Transplant to larger pots in 6 weeks and set outside in the ground after all danger of frost has passed.
During the winter, our interests also turn indoors to our house-plants and their care. Remember, don’t do a lot of fertilizing during the winter. They do not need it. Excessive fertilization can result in a salt buildup in the soil and may cause root problems. If you are growing plants in clay pots, exces-sive salts will show up as a white deposit on the outside of the pot.
Also, watch your watering. De-pending on where the plant is lo-cated in the house, it may require more or less water depending on
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Tidewater Gardeningthe environmental conditions. If the plant in question is growing in a cool, north-facing room, it will need less water than one that is in the living room, den, or family room where the woodstove is lo-cated.
If the leaves of your houseplant are turning yellow and dropping from the bottom toward the top, the plant may be suffering from over-watering. The plant could be in a pot that is too large and the ex-cess soil around the roots holds too much water, leading to low oxygen levels and root rot. To avoid this problem, never put a plant into a pot that’s more than 1 to 2 inches
wider than the root ball.Wilting can be caused by too
much water, too little water, or over-fertilization. Leaves with brown edges may be a sign of chronic under-watering or peri-odic episodes of severe drying out.
Happy gardening!
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Dorchester County is known as the Heart of the Chesapeake. It is rich in Chesapeake Bay history, folklore and tradition. With 1,700 miles of shore-line (more than any other Maryland county), marshlands, working boats, quaint waterfront towns and villages among fertile farm fields – much still exists of the authentic Eastern Shore landscape and traditional way of life along the Chesapeake.
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Dorchester Points of Interestbridge in Maryland after the Chesapeake Bay Bridge. A life-long resident of Dorchester County, Senator Malkus served in the Maryland State Senate from 1951 through 1994. Next to the Malkus Bridge is the 1933 Emerson C. Harrington Bridge. This bridge was replaced by the Malkus Bridge in 1987. Remains of the 1933 bridge are used as fishing piers on both the north and south bank of the river.
LAGRANGE PLANTATION - home of the Dorchester County Historical Society, LaGrange Plantation offers a range of local history and heritage on its grounds. The Meredith House, a 1760’s Georgian home, features artifacts and exhibits on the seven Maryland governors associated with the county; a child’s room containing antique dolls and toys; and other period displays. The Neild Museum houses a broad collection of agricultural, maritime, industrial, and Native American artifacts, including a McCormick reaper (invented by Cyrus McCormick in 1831). The Ron Rue exhibit pays tribute to a talented local decoy carver with a re-creation of his workshop. The Goldsborough Stable, circa 1790, includes a sulky, pony cart, horse-driven sleighs, and tools of the woodworker, wheelwright, and blacksmith. For more info. tel: 410-228-7953 or visit dorchesterhistory.org.
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DORCHESTER COUNTY VISITOR CENTER - The Visitors Center in Cambridge is a major entry point to the lower Eastern Shore, positioned just off U.S. Route 50 along the shore of the Choptank River. With its 100-foot sail canopy, it’s also a landmark. In addition to travel information and exhibits on the heritage of the area, there’s also a large playground, garden, boardwalk, restrooms, vending machines, and more. The Visitors Center is open daily from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. For more information about Dorchester County call 800-522-8687 or visit www.tourdorchester.org or www.tourchesapeakecountry.com.
SAILWINDS PARK - Located at 202 Byrn St., Cambridge, Sailwinds Park has been the site for popular events such as the Seafood Feast-I-Val in August, Crabtoberfest in October and the Grand National Waterfowl Hunt’s Grandtastic Jamboree in November. For more info. tel: 410-228-SAIL(7245) or visit www.sailwindscambridge.com.
CAMBRIDGE CREEK - a tributary of the Choptank River, runs through the heart of Cambridge. Located along the creek are restaurants where you can watch watermen dock their boats after a day’s work on the waterways of Dorchester.
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Cambridge’s High Street one of the most beautiful streets in America. He modeled his fictional city Patamoke after Cambridge. Many of the gracious homes on High Street date from the 1700s and 1800s. Today you can join a historic walking tour of High Street each Saturday at 11 a.m., April through October (weather permitting). For more info. tel: 410-901-1000.
SKIPJACK NATHAN OF DORCHESTER - Sail aboard the authentic skipjack Nathan of Dorchester, offering heritage cruises on the Choptank River. The Nathan is docked at Long Wharf in Cambridge. Dredge for oysters and hear the stories of the working waterman’s way of life. For more info. and schedules tel: 410-228-7141 or visit www.skipjack-nathan.org.
DORCHESTER CENTER FOR THE ARTS - Located at 321 High Street in Cambridge, the Center offers monthly gallery exhibits and shows, extensive art classes, and special events, as well as an artisans’ gift shop with an array of items created by local and regional artists. For more info. tel: 410-228-7782 or visit www.dorchesterarts.org.
RICHARDSON MARITIME MUSEUM - Located at 401 High St., Cambridge, the Museum makes history come alive for visitors in the form of exquisite models of traditional Bay boats. The Museum also offers a
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collection of boatbuilders’ tools and watermen’s artifacts that convey an understanding of how the boats were constructed and the history of their use. The Museum’s Ruark Boatworks facility, located on Maryland Ave., is passing on the knowledge and skills of area boatwrights to volunteers and visitors alike. Watch boatbuilding and restoration in action. For more info. tel: 410-221-1871 or visit www.richardsonmuseum.org.
HARRIET TUBMAN MUSEUM & EDUCATIONAL CENTER The Museum and Educational Center is developing programs to preserve the history and memory of Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad. The museum is open Tuesday through Saturday. Local tours by appoint-ment are available. The Museum and Educational Center, located at 424 Race St., Cambridge, is one of the stops on the “Finding a Way to Freedom” self-guided driving tour. For more info. tel: 410-228-0401.
SPOCOTT WINDMILL - Since 1972, Dorchester County has had a fully operating English style post windmill that was expertly crafted by the late master shipbuilder, James B. Richardson. There has been a succession of windmills at this location dating back to the late 1700’s. The complex also includes an 1800 tenant house, one-room school, blacksmith shop, and country store museum. The windmill is located at 1625 Hudson Rd., Cambridge.
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HORN POINT LABORATORY - The Horn Point Laboratory offers public tours of this world-class scientific research laboratory, which is af-filiated with the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science. The 90-minute walking tour shows how scientists are conducting research to restore the Chesapeake Bay. Horn Point Laboratory is located at 2020 Horns Point Rd., Cambridge, on the banks of the Choptank River. For more info. and tour schedule tel: 410-228-8200 or visit www.umces.edu/hpl.
THE STANLEY INSTITUTE - This 19th century one-room African American schoolhouse, dating back to 1865, is one of the oldest Maryland schools to be organized and maintained by a black community. Between 1867 and 1962, the youth in the African-American community of Christ Rock attended this school, which is now listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Tours available by appointment. The Stanley Institute is located at the intersection of Route 16 West & Bayly Rd., Cambridge. For more info. tel: 410-228-6657.
BUCKTOWN VILLAGE STORE - Visit the site where Harriet Tubman received a blow to her head that fractured her skull. From this injury Harriet believed God gave her the vision and directions that inspired her to guide
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HARRIET TUBMAN BIRTHPLACE - “The Moses of her People,” Harriet Tubman was believed to have been born on the Brodess Planta-tion in Bucktown. There are no Tubman-era buildings remaining at the site, which today is a farm. Recent archeological work at this site has been inconclusive, and the investigation is continuing, although there is some evidence that points to Madison as a possible birthplace.
BLACKWATER NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE, located 12 miles south of Cambridge at 2145 Key Wallace Dr. With more than 25,000 acres of tidal marshland, it is an important stop along the Atlantic Flyway. Blackwater is currently home to the largest remaining natural population of endangered Delmarva fox squirrels and the largest breeding population of American bald eagles on the East Coast, north of Florida. There is a full ser-vice Visitor Center and a four-mile Wildlife Drive, walking trails and water trails. For more info. tel: 410-228-2677 or visit www.fws.gov/blackwater.
EAST NEW MARKET - Originally settled in 1660, the entire town is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Follow a self-guided walking tour to see the district that contains almost all the residences of the original founders and offers excellent examples of colonial architecture.
HURLOCK TRAIN STATION Incorporated in 1892, Hurlock ranks as the second largest town in Dorchester County. It began from a Dorchester/Delaware Railroad station built in 1867. The Old Train Station has been restored and is host to occasional train excursions. For more info. tel: 410-943-4181.
VIENNA HERITAGE MUSEUM The Vienna Heritage Museum displays the Elliott Island Shell Button Factory operation. This was the last surviving mother-of-pearl button manufacturer in the United States. Numerous artifacts are also displayed which depict a view of the past life in this rural community. The Vienna Heritage Museum is located at 303 Race St., Vienna. For more info. tel: 410-943-1212 or visit www.viennamd.org.
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Historic Downtown Easton — the county seat of Talbot County. Established around early religious settlements and a court of law, Historic Downtown Easton is today a centerpiece of fine specialty shops, business and cultural activities, unique restaurants and architectural fascination. Tree-lined streets are graced with various period structures and remarkable homes, carefully preserved or restored. Because of its historical significance, Easton has earned distinction as the “Colonial Capital of the Eastern Shore” and was honored as #8 in the book, “The 100 Best Small Towns in America.”
Walking Tour of Downtown EastonStart near the corner of Harrison Street and Mill Place.
1. HISTORIC TIDEWATER INN - 101 E. Dover St. A completely mod-ern hotel built in 1949, it was enlarged in 1953 and has recently undergone extensive renovations. It is the “Pride of the Eastern Shore.”
2. THE BULLITT HOUSE - 108 E. Dover St. One of Easton’s oldest and most beautiful homes, it was built in 1801. It is now occupied by the Mid-Shore Community Foundation.
3. AVALON THEATRE - 42 E. Dover St. Constructed in 1921 during the heyday of silent films and Vaudeville entertainment. Over the course of its history, it has been the scene of three world premiers, including “The First Kiss,” starring Fay Wray and Gary Cooper, in 1928. The theater has gone through two major restorations: the first in 1936, when it was refinished in an art deco theme by the Schine Theater chain, and again 52 years later, when it was converted to a performing arts and community center. For more info. tel: 410-822-0345 or visit www.avalontheatre.com.
4. TALBOT COUNTY VISITORS CENTER - 11 S. Harrison St. The Office of Tourism provides visitors with county information for historic Easton and the waterfront villages of Oxford, St. Michaels and Tilghman Island. For more info. tel: 410-770-8000 or visit www.tourtalbot.org.
5. BARTLETT PEAR INN - 28 S. Harrison St. Significant for its ar-chitecture, it was built by Benjamin Stevens in 1790 and is one of Easton’s earliest three-bay brick buildings. The home was “modernized” with Vic-torian bay windows on the right side in the 1890s.
6. WATERFOWL BUILDING - 40 S. Harrison St. The old armory is
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7. ACADEMY ART MUSEUM - 106 South St. Accredited by the American Association of Museums, the Academy Art Museum is a fine art museum founded in 1958. Providing national and regional exhibitions, performances, educational programs, and visual and performing arts classes to adults and children, the Museum also offers a vibrant concert and lecture series and an annual craft festival, CRAFT SHOW (the Eastern Shore’s largest juried fine craft show), featuring local and national artists and artisans demonstrating, exhibiting and selling their crafts. The Museum’s permanent collection consists of works on paper and contemporary works by American and European masters. Mon. through Fri. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Sat. 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.; extended hours on Tues., Wed. and Thurs. until 7 p.m. For more info. tel: (410) 822-ARTS (2787) or visit www.art-academy.org.
8. CHRIST CHURCH - St. Peter’s Parish, 111 South Harrison St. The Parish was founded in 1692 with the present church built ca. 1840, of Port Deposit granite.
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Easton Points of Interest9. HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF TALBOT COUNTY - 25 S. Washington
St. Enjoy an evocative portrait of everyday life during earlier times when visiting the c. 18th and 19th century historic houses and a museum with changing exhibitions, all of which surround a Federal-style garden. Located in the heart of Easton’s historic district. Museum hours: Thurs., Fri. & Sat., 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. (winter) and Mon. through Sat., 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. (summer), with group tours offered by appointment. For more info. tel: 410-822-0773 or visit www.hstc.org. Tharpe Antiques and Decorative Arts located at 30 S. Washington Street. Hours: Tues.-Sat. 10-4 and Sun. 11-4. Consignments accepted on Tues. or by appointment 410-820-7525 Proceeds support HSTC.
10. ODD FELLOWS LODGE - At the corner of Washington and Dover streets stands a building with secrets. It was constructed in 1879 as the meeting hall for the Odd Fellows. Carved into the stone and placed into the stained glass are images and symbols that have meaning only for members. See if you can find the dove, linked rings and other symbols.
11. THE TALBOT COUNTY COURTHOUSE - Long known as the “East Capital” of Maryland. The present building was completed in 1794 on
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the site of the earlier one built in 1711. It has been remodeled several times.11A. FREDERICK DOUGLASS STATUE - 11 N. Washington St. on
the lawn of the Talbot County Courthouse. The statue honors Frederick Douglass in his birthplace, Talbot County, where the experiences in his youth ~ both positive and negative ~ helped form his character, intellect and determination. Also on the grounds is a memorial to the veterans who fought and died in the Vietnam War, and a monument “To the Talbot Boys,” commemorating the men from Talbot who fought in the Battle of Gettysburg. The Union’s First Eastern Shore Regiment included men of Trappe’s Company H. They fought troops of the First Maryland Confederate Regiment, that also included men from the Trappe area.
12. SHANNAHAN & WRIGHTSON HARDWARE BUILDING - 12 N. Washington St. It is the oldest store in Easton. In 1791, Owen Kennard began work on a new brick building that changed hands several times throughout the years. Dates on the building show when additions were made in 1877, 1881 and 1889. The present front was completed in time for a grand opening on Dec. 7, 1941 - Pearl Harbor Day.
13. THE BRICK HOTEL - northwest corner of Washington and Fed-eral streets. Built in 1812, it became the Eastern Shore’s leading hostelry. When court was in session, plaintiffs, defendants and lawyers all came to town and shared rooms in hotels such as this. Frederick Douglass stayed in the Brick Hotel when he came back after the Civil War and gave a speech in the courthouse. It is now an office building.
14. THOMAS PERRIN SMITH HOUSE - 119 N. Washington St. Built in 1803, it was the early home of the newspaper from which the Star-Democrat grew. In 1911, the building was acquired by the Chesapeake Bay Yacht Club, which occupies it today.
15. ART DECO STORES - 13-25 Goldsborough Street. Although much of Easton looks Colonial or Victorian, the 20th century had its influences as well. This row of stores has distinctive 1920s-era white trim at the roofline. It is rumored that there was a speakeasy here during Prohibition.
16. FIRST MASONIC GRAND LODGE - 23 N. Harrison Street. The records of Coats Lodge of Masons in Easton show that five Masonic Lodges met in Talbot Court House (as Easton was then called) on July 31, 1783 to form the first Grand Lodge of Masons in Maryland. Although the building they first met in is gone, a plaque marks the spot today.
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17. FOXLEY HALL - Built about 1795 at 24 N. Aurora St., Foxley Hall is one of the best-known of Easton’s Federal dwellings. Former home of Oswald Tilghman, great-grandson of Lt. Col. Tench Tilghman. (Private)
18. TRINITY EPISCOPAL CATHEDRAL - On “Cathedral Green,” Goldsborough St., a traditional Gothic design in granite. The interior is well worth a visit. All windows are stained glass, picturing New Testament scenes, and the altar cross of Greek type is unique.
19. INN AT 202 DOVER - Built in 1874, this Victorian-era mansion reflects many architectural styles. For years the building was known as the Wrightson House, thanks to its early 20th century owner, Charles T. Wrightson, one of the founders of the S. & W. canned food empire. Locally it is still referred to as Captain’s Watch due to its prominent balustraded widow’s walk. The Inn’s renovation in 2006 was acknowledged by the Maryland Historic Trust and the U.S. Dept. of the Interior.
20. TALBOT COUNTY FREE LIBRARY - Housed in an attractively remodeled building on West Street, the hours of operation are Mon. and Thurs., 9 a.m. to 8 p.m., Tues. and Wed. 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Fri. and Sat., 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., except during the summer when it’s 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on
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21. THIRD HAVEN MEETING HOUSE - Built in 1682 and the oldest frame building dedicated to religious meetings in America. The Meeting House was built at the headwaters of the Tred Avon: people came by boat to attend. William Penn preached there with Lord Baltimore present. Extensive renovations were completed in 1990.
22. MEMORIAL HOSPITAL AT EASTON - Established in the early 1900s, now one of the finest hospitals on the Eastern Shore. Memorial Hospital is part of the Shore Health System. www.shorehealth.org.
23. EASTON POINT MARINA & BOAT RAMP - At the end of Port Street on the Tred Avon River
24. TALBOTTOWN, EASTON PLAZA, EASTON MARKETPLACE, TRED AVON SQUARE and WATERSIDE VILLAGE- Shopping cen-ters, all in close proximity to downtown Easton.
24A. TALBOT COUNTY VISUAL ARTS CENTER, INC. - TCVAC provides Talbot County artists with a venue to exhibit artwork to the public. Currently under renovation. For alternate venues and class information visit www.talbot-art-center.org.
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25. HOG NECK GOLF COURSE - 18 hole Championship course, 9 hole Executive course. Full service pro shop. 410-822-6079.
26. TALBOT COMMUNITY CENTER - The year-round activities offered at the community center range from ice hockey to figure skating, aerobics and curling. The Center is also host to many events throughout the year, such as antique, craft, boating and sportsman shows.
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29. TALBOT COUNTRY CLUB - Established in 1910, the Talbot Country Club is located at 6142 Country Club Drive, Easton.
30. WHITE MARSH CHURCH - Only the ruins remain, but the churchyard contains the grave of the elder Robert Morris, who died July 22, 1750. The parish had a rector of the Church of England in 1690.
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On the broad Miles River, with its picturesque tree-lined streets and beautiful harbor, St. Michaels has been a haven for boats plying the Chesa-peake and its inlets since the earliest days. Here, some of the handsomest models of the Bay craft, such as canoes, bugeyes, pungys and some famous Baltimore Clippers, were designed and built. The Church, named “St. Mi-chael’s,” was the first building erected (about 1677) and around it clustered the town that took its name.
1. WADES POINT INN - Located on a point of land overlooking majestic Chesapeake Bay, this historic inn has been welcoming guests for over 100 years. Thomas Kemp, builder of the original “Pride of Baltimore,” built the main house in 1819.
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2. HARBOURTOWNE GOLF RESORT - Bay View Restaurant and Duckblind Bar on the scenic Miles River with an 18 hole golf course.
3. MILES RIVER YACHT CLUB - Organized in 1920, the Miles River Yacht Club continues its dedication to boating on our waters and the protec-tion of the heritage of log canoes, the oldest class of boat still sailing U. S. waters. The MRYC has been instrumental in preserving the log canoe and its rich history on the Chesapeake Bay.
4. THE INN AT PERRY CABIN - The original building was constructed in the early 19th century by Samuel Hambleton, a purser in the United States Navy during the War of 1812. It was named for his friend, Commodore Oliver Hazzard Perry. Perry Cabin has served as a riding academy and was restored in 1980 as an inn and restaurant. The Inn is now a member of the Orient Express Hotels.
5. THE PARSONAGE INN - A bed and breakfast inn at 210 N. Talbot St., was built by Henry Clay Dodson, a prominent St. Michaels businessman and state legislator around 1883 as his private residence. In 1874, Dodson, along with Joseph White, established the St. Michaels Brick Company, which later provided the brick for “the old Parsonae house.”
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6. FREDERICK DOUGLASS HISTORIC MARKER - Born at Tucka-hoe Creek, Talbot County, Douglass lived as a slave in the St. Michaels area from 1833 to 1836. He taught himself to read and taught in clandestine schools for blacks here. He escaped to the north and became a noted abo-litionist, orator and editor. He returned in 1877 as a U.S. Marshal for the District of Columbia and also served as the D.C. Recorder of Deeds and the U.S. Minister to Haiti.
7. CHESAPEAKE BAY MARITIME MUSEUM - Founded in 1965, the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum is dedicated to preserving the rich heritage of the hemisphere’s largest and most productive estuary - the Chesapeake Bay. Located on 18 waterfront acres, its nine exhibit buildings and floating fleet bring to life the story of the Bay and its inhabitants, from the fully restored 1879 Hooper Strait lighthouse and working boatyard to the impressive collection of working decoys and a recreated waterman’s shanty. Home to the world’s largest collection of Bay boats, the Museum regularly hosts temporary exhibitions, special events, festivals, and education pro-grams. Docking and pump-out facilities available. Exhibitions and Museum Store open year-round. Up-to-date information and hours can be found
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on the Museum’s website at www.cbmm.org or by calling 410-745-2916.8. THE CRAB CLAW - Restaurant adjoining the Maritime Museum and
overlooking St. Michaels harbor. Open March-November. 410-745-2900 or www.thecrabclaw.com.
9. PATRIOT - During the season (April-November) the 65’ cruise boat can carry 150 persons, runs daily historic narrated cruises along the Miles River. For daily cruise times, visit www.patriotcruises.com or call 410-745-3100.
10. THE FOOTBRIDGE - Built on the site of many earlier bridges, today’s bridge joins Navy Point to Cherry Street. It has been variously known as “Honeymoon Bridge” and “Sweetheart Bridge.” It is the only remaining bridge of three that at one time connected the town with outly-ing areas around the harbor.
11. VICTORIANA INN - The Victoriana Inn is located in the Historic District of St. Michaels. The home was built in 1873 by Dr. Clay Dodson, a druggist, and occupied as his private residence and office. In 1910 the property, then known as “Willow Cottage,” underwent alterations when acquired by the Shannahan family who continued it as a private residence
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for over 75 years. As a bed and breakfast, circa 1988, major renovations took place, preserving the historic character of the gracious Victorian era.
12. HAMBLETON INN - On the harbor. Historic waterfront home built in 1860 and restored as a bed and breakfast in 1985 with a turn-of-the-century atmosphere. All the rooms have a view of the harbor.
13. MILL HOUSE - Originally built on the beach about 1660 and later moved to its present location on Harrison Square (Cherry St. near Locust St.).
14. FREEDOMS FRIEND LODGE - Chartered in 1867 and constructed in 1883, the Freedoms Friend Lodge is the oldest lodge existing in Maryland and is a prominent historic site for our black community. It is now the site of Blue Crab Coffee Company.
15. TALBOT COUNTY FREE LIBRARY - St. Michaels Branch is located at 106 S. Fremont Street. For more info. tel: 410-745-5877.
16. CARPENTER STREET SALOON - Life in the Colonial community revolved around the tavern. The traveler could, of course, obtain food, drink, lodging or even a fresh horse to speed his journey. This tavern was built in 1874 and has served the community as a bank, a newspaper office, post office and telephone company.
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17. TWO SWAN INN - The Two Swan Inn on the harbor served as the former site of the Miles River Yacht Club, was built in the 1800s and was renovated in 1984. It is located at the foot of Carpenter Street.
18. TARR HOUSE - Built by Edward Elliott as his plantation home about 1661. It was Elliott and an indentured servant, Darby Coghorn, who built the first church in St. Michaels. This was about 1677, on the site of the present Episcopal Church (6 Willow Street, near Locust).
19. CHRIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH - 301 S. Talbot St. Built of Port Deposit stone, the present church was erected in 1878. The first is believed to have been built in 1677 by Edward Elliott.
20. THE INN - Built in 1817 by Wrightson Jones, who opened and operated the shipyard at Beverly on Broad Creek. (Talbot St. at Mulberry).
21. THE CANNONBALL HOUSE - When St. Michaels was shelled by the British in a night attack in 1813, the town was “blacked out” and lanterns were hung in the trees to lead the attackers to believe the town was on a high bluff. The houses were overshot. The story is that a cannonball hit the chimney of “Cannonball House” and rolled down the stairway. This “black-out” was believed to be the first such “blackout” in the history of warfare.
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22. AMELIA WELBY HOUSE - Amelia Coppuck, who became Amelia Welby, was born in this house and wrote poems that won her fame and the praise of Edgar Allan Poe.
23. TOWN DOCK RESTAURANT - During 1813, at the time of the Battle of St. Michaels, it was known as “Dawson’s Wharf” and had 2 can-nons on carriages donated by Jacob Gibson, which fired 10 of the 15 rounds directed at the British. For a period up to the early 1950s it was called “The Longfellow Inn.” It was rebuilt in 1977 after burning to the ground.
24. ST. MICHAELS MUSEUM at ST. MARY’S SQUARE - Located in the heart of the historic district, offers a unique view of 19th century life in St. Michaels. The exhibits are housed in three period buildings and contain local furniture and artifacts donated by residents. The museum is supported entirely through community efforts. Open May-October, Mon., 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., Fri., 1 to 4 p.m., Sat., 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Sun., 1 to 4 p.m. Other days on request. Admission is $3 for adults and $1 for children with children under 6 free. 410-745-9561 or www.stmichaelsmuseum.com.
25. KEMP HOUSE - Now a country inn. A Georgian style house, constructed in 1805 by Colonel Joseph Kemp, a revolutionary soldier and hero of the War of 1812.
26. THE OLD MILL COMPLEX - The Old Mill was a functioning
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flour mill from the late 1800s until the 1970s, producing flour used primarily for Maryland beaten bis-cuits. Today it is home to a brewery, winery, artists, furniture makers, a baker and other unique shops and businesses.
27. ST. MICHAELS HARBOUR INN, MARINA & SPA - Construct-ed in 1986 and recently renovated, it has overnight accommodations, conference facilities, marina, spa and Pascal’s Restaurant & Tavern.
28. ST. MICHAELS NATURE TRAIL - The St. Michaels Nature Trail is a 1.3 mile paved walkway that winds around the western side of St. Michaels starting at a dedi-cated parking lot on South Talbot Street across from the Bay Hundred swimming pool. The 8-foot-wide path is a former railroad bed and is popular with walkers and cyclists who want to stay away from traffic. The path cuts through the woods, San Domingo Park, over a covered bridge and past a horse farm and historic cemetery before ending in Bradley Park. The trail is open all year from dawn to dusk.
29. ST. MICHAELS VOLUN-TEER FIRE DEPARTMENT - The St. Michaels Fire Department is located at 1001 S. Talbot Street with a range that includes all areas from Arcadia Shores to Wittman, covering 120 square miles of land area, and 130 miles of shoreline.
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OxfordPoints of Interest
Oxford is one of the oldest towns in Maryland. Although already settled for perhaps 20 years, Oxford marks the year 1683 as its official founding, for in that year Oxford was first named by the Maryland General Assembly as a seaport and was laid out as a town. In 1694, Oxford and a new town called Anne Arundel (now Annapolis) were selected the only ports of entry for the entire Maryland province. Until the American Revolution, Oxford enjoyed prominence as an international shipping center surrounded by wealthy tobacco plantations.
Today, Oxford is a charming tree-lined and waterbound village with a population of just over 700 and is still important in boat building and yacht-ing. It has a protected harbor for watermen who harvest oysters, crabs, clams and fish, and for sailors from all over the Bay.
1. TENCH TILGHMAN MONUMENT - In the Oxford Cemetery the Revolutionary War hero’s body lies along with that of his widow. Lt. Tench Tilghman carried the message of Cornwallis’ surrender from Yorktown,
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Oxford Points of InterestVA, to the Continental Congress in Philadelphia. Across the cove from the cemetery may be seen Plimhimmon, home of Tench Tilghman’s widow, Anna Marie Tilghman.
2. THE OXFORD COMMUNITY CENTER - 200 Oxford Road. The Oxford Community Center, a pillared brick schoolhouse saved from the wrecking ball by the town residents, is a gathering place for meetings, classes, lectures, dinner theater and performances by the Tred Avon Play-ers and has been recently renovated. Rentals available to groups and
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3. BACHELOR POINT HAR-BOR - Located at the mouth of the Tred Avon River, 9’ water depth.
4. THE COOPERATIVE OX-FORD LABORATORY - U.S. Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Adminis-tration and Maryland Department of Natural Resources located here. 410-226-5193 or www.dnr.state.md.us/fisheries/oxford.
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5. OXFORD TOWN PARK - Former site of the Oxford High School. Recent restoration of the beach as part of a “living shoreline
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project” created 2 terraced sitting walls, a protective groin and a sandy beach with native grasses which will stop further erosion and provide valu-able aquatic habitat. A similar project has been completed adjacent to the ferry dock. A kayak launch site has also been located near the ferry dock.
6. OXFORD MUSEUM - Morris & Market Sts. Devoted to the memo-ries and tangible mementos of Oxford, MD. The Museum will close for the season on November 12 and will re-open on the 4th Saturday of April 2013. Admission is free; donations gratefully accepted. For more info. tel: 410-226-0191.
7. OXFORD LIBRARY - 101 Market St. Founded in 1939 and on its present site since 1950. Hours are Mon.-Sat., 10-4.
8. THE BRATT MANSION (ACADEMY HOUSE) - 205 N. Morris St. Served as quarters for the officers of a Maryland Military Academy built about 1848. (Private residence)
9. BARNABY HOUSE - 212 N. Morris St. Built in 1770 by sea captain Richard Barnaby, this charming house contains original pine woodwork, corner fireplaces and an unusually lovely handmade staircase. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places. (Private residence)
10. THE GRAPEVINE HOUSE - 309 N. Morris St. The grapevine
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Oxford Points of Interestover the entrance arbor was brought from the Isle of Jersey in 1810 by Captain William Willis, who commanded the brig “Sarah and Louisa.” (Private residence)
11. THE ROBERT MORRIS INN - N. Morris St. & The Strand. Robert Morris was the father of Robert Morris, Jr., the “financier of the Revolution.” Built about 1710, part of the original house with a beautiful staircase is contained in the beautifully restored Inn, now open 7 days a week. Robert Morris, Jr. was one of only 2 Founding Fathers to sign the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the United States Constitution.
12. THE OXFORD CUSTOM HOUSE - N. Morris St. & The Strand. Built in 1976 as Oxford’s official Bicentennial project. It is a replica of the first Federal Custom House built by Jeremiah Banning, who was the first Federal Collector of Customs appointed by George Washington.
13. TRED AVON YACHT CLUB - N. Morris St. & The Strand. Founded in 1931. The present building, completed in 1991, replaced the original structure.
14. OXFORD-BELLEVUE FERRY - N. Morris St. & The Strand.
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Oxford Points of InterestStarted in 1683, this is believed to be the oldest privately operated ferry in the United States. Its first keeper was Richard Royston, whom the Talbot County Court ‘pitcht upon’ to run a ferry at an unusual subsidy of 2,500 pounds of tobacco. Service has been continuous since 1836, with power supplied by sail, sculling, rowing, steam, and modern diesel engine. Many now take the ride between Oxford and Bellevue for the scenic beauty.
15. BYEBERRY - On the grounds of Cutts & Case Boatyard. It faces Town Creek and is one of the oldest houses in the area. The date of con-struction is unknown, but it was standing in 1695. Originally, it was in the main business section but was moved to the present location about 1930. (Private residence)
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72 acre Taylor’s Island Farm: Mostly tillable ground with two large 5 +/- acre waterfowl impoundments, and two small holding ponds. Excellent Waterfowl Property with some sika, whitetail, and turkey. Asking $499,000.
58 +/- Acre Property: Located in Crapo, Md consists of woodland and marsh, one fl ooded impoundment for ducks, and one permanent pond in woods. 5 acre open space allows for another pond. Perfect habitat for waterfowl, whitetail, sika, and turkeys. A real sportsman’s paradise. Asking $249,000.
270 Acre Dorchester County Marsh that is boat access only. This property is an excellent waterfowl and sika deer property. Asking $295,000.
390 Acres Timber: Dorchester County. The tract of timber consists of .3 acres of ponds, 1.5 acres of food plots for Deer and Turkeys. Perfect investment for timber harvesting or deer and turkey hunting. Asking $1,200,000.
135 Acre Talbot County Farm with roughly 70+/- tillable acres with the remainder in woods. Great location for goose, duck, deer, and turkeys. Asking $938,250.
Green Marsh Point: 33.15 Acres with huge westerly views across the Bay to Poplar Island. Large mature trees, sandy beach, marsh and 4+/- mlw complete this listing. Asking $799,000.
Very Private 21.5 Acre Point of Land located 2 miles from downtown St. Michaels on San Domingo Creek. This offering includes 950 ft of shoreline, southeast exposure, 4.5+/- mlw, and the ag transfer tax has been paid. Permits for rip-rap, living shoreline, dock, and driveway completed and will be transferred to the new owner. Asking $1,795,000.
Private 16 Acre Waterfront Lot located on Solitude Creek within 5 minutes of downtown St. Michaels. This property is perk approved with mature trees, and offers 3 feet mlw. Asking $699,000.
61 Acre Island located on the Honga River in Dorchester County. This parcel is improved with a 1 bedroom, 1 bath hunting cabin and offers outstanding waterfrowl hunting. Asking $380,000.
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Tilghman’s Island“Great Choptank Island” was granted to Seth Foster in 1659. Thereafter
it was known as Foster’s Island, and remained so through a succession of owners until Matthew Tilghman of Claiborne inherited it in 1741. He and his heirs owned the island for over a century and it has been Tilghman’s Island ever since, though the northern village and the island’s postal designation are simply “Tilghman.”
For its first 175 years, the island was a family farm, supplying grains, vegetables, fruit, cattle, pigs and timber. Although the owners rarely were in residence, many slaves were; an 1817 inventory listed 104. The last Tilghman owner, General Tench Tilghman (not Washington’s aide-de-camp), removed the slaves in the 1830s and began selling off lots. In 1849, he sold his remaining interests to James Seth, who continued the development.
The island’s central location in the middle Bay is ideally suited for watermen harvesting the Bay in all seasons. The years before the Civil War saw the influx of the first families we know today. A second wave arrived after the War, attracted by the advent of oyster dredging in the 1870s. Hundreds of dredgers and tongers operated out of Tilghman’s Island, their catches sent to the cities by schooners. Boat building, too, was an important industry.
The boom continued into the 1890s, spurred by the arrival of steamboat service, which opened vast new markets for Bay seafood. Islanders quickly capitalized on the opportunity as several seafood buyers set up shucking and canning operations on pilings at the edge of the shoal of Dogwood Cove. The discarded oyster shells eventually became an island with seafood packing houses, hundreds of workers, a store, and even a post office.
The steamboats also brought visitors who came to hunt, fish, relax and escape the summer heat of the cities. Some families stayed all summer in one of the guest houses that sprang up in the villages of Tilghman, Avalon, Fairbank and Bar Neck. Although known for their independence, Tilghman’s Islanders enjoy showing visitors how to pick a crab, shuck an oyster or find a good fishing spot.
In the twentieth century, Islanders pursued these vocations in farming, on the water, and in the thriving seafood processing industry. The “Tilghman Brand” was known throughout the eastern United States, but as the Bay’s bounty diminished, so did the number of water-related jobs. Still, three of the few remaining Bay ‘skipjacks’ (sailing dredgeboats) can be seen here, as well as two working harbors with scores of power workboats.
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The War of 1813by
Gary D. CrawfordFor some time now, I have re-
sisted the temptation to write about the War of 1812. Everybody and his brother seemed to be jumping on that 200th anniversary bandwagon, so I figured I’d just leave it to them and hold my fire. But now it’s 2013 and that’s all over. So here’s my piece on the War of 1813.
What a curious war this was! The oddness starts with its name. The conflict went down in history as the “War of 1812,” presumably because that was the year the U.S. declared war on Great Britain. So far as I know, no other war in history has had so little thought given to its name, except perhaps for the War of Jenkins’ Ear (1739-48).
Calling it the War of 1812 is like
calling World War II the “War of 1941.” Besides, hostilities actu-ally began in 1807 when the USS Chesapeake was jumped by HMS Leopard just after leaving our Bay. That wasn’t quite enough for Mr. Jefferson to declare war, but five years later she was captured again. President Madison finally had to accept his party’s call to war.
Is there a better name for this war? The Federalists who opposed the war called it “Mr. Madison’s War,” but that’s too partisan for me. In some states, there was strenuous opposition to the war, especially in New England. Several states even considered seceding from the union over it, in which case we might have called it the Civil War. The Federal-
The proud USS Chesapeake before and after she was captured and then dismantled by the British.
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ists eventually rallied to the defense of their nation, however, when the British managed to alienate even them.
However, since you asked, if it were up to me I’d call our first war with the British (1775-83) our “War of Revolution” because that was when the American states broke their colonial bonds. This second war, just 30 years later, was fought to establish our rightful place in the world as a sovereign nation. I’d propose calling it our “War for In-dependence.”
But nobody is going fix the dumb name, right? The War of 1812 it will remain, and here’s the Cliff’s Notes
The War of 1813 version of it, so listen up. It took place over three years (mid-1812 to mid-1815), on the high seas, and in three far distant locations in North America ~ along the Canadian bor-der, in the Chesapeake, and on the outskirts of New Orleans ~ more or less in that sequence. OK?
Did you even know about the war with Canada? That was all our bright idea. We thought we could push Great Britain out of North America once and for all. (One glance at Canadian money shows how well that worked out.) Also, for some reason, we imagined the Canadian people would leap at the chance of becoming our 19th state! (Also wrong, eh?)
There were many raids and bat-
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tles around and on the Great Lakes, some quite vicious, nearly all of which we lost rather badly. Worse, our incursions really annoyed the British and made a peaceful settle-ment of our other differences virtu-ally impossible. We did finally gain control of the Great Lakes, howev-er. We also broke up the alliance between the British and Tecum-seh, that forgetful leader of those persnickety First Americans who couldn’t recall giving their country to Napoleon. (You may recall he sold the Louisiana Purchase to us just nine years earlier; Jefferson got it at a pretty good price, too ~ 3¢ an acre!) Nevertheless, our adventure in Canada was pretty much of a ca-tastrophe for us from start to finish, and we soon gave it up.
By contrast, the war in New Or-leans was a disaster for the Brit-ish. For a change, we had a firm and decisive leader in charge. An-drew Jackson picked the ground on which to fight, established a protected position, rallied an odd collection of troops, and on Janu-ary 8th, 1815, caught the British army in the open. The British suf-fered over 2,000 casualties that day alone, to our 71, and soon withdrew. The entire British fleet left Louisi-ana. They were preparing to attack Mobile when news finally reached them that a peace treaty had been signed before Christmas. (And to-day we complain about the lack of cell phone coverage!)
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For the quiz on Friday, let’s re-view: the northern conflicts began in mid-1812 and wound up by the end of 1813; the southern battles began in 1814 and ended in early 1815.
Yes, Gentle Reader? I see your hand in the air. Ah, you’re quite right. Indeed, we are more inter-ested in how the war played out hereabouts, are we not? Fine, we’re coming to that now. So, is this where we finally get to the famous ‘Battle of the Chesapeake” ~ you know, the sack of Washington, the attack on Baltimore, the Star-Span-gled Banner, and all that?
Well, no, actually. To be blunt, none of those events were really “battles,” not in the usual sense of two big armies clashing. There was a nasty three-hour firefight at
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Bladensburg, but then the British marched into Washington unop-posed. At Baltimore they mounted an amazing 25-hour artillery bar-rage at Fort McHenry, with every cannonball and Congreve rocket they had in stock.
True, some soldiers did clash at nearby North Point, but both groups stopped before an all-out attack was launched by either side. When the British saw the fort un-damaged and realized the city was well-defended, they withdrew their people to their ships and the fleet sailed out of the Patapsco. Off they went to New Orleans ~ and disas-ter. That was the end of the “Battle in the Chesapeake.”
Besides, all that happened in 1814 and our focus here is 1813. Well, did anything interesting oc-cur on the Chesapeake in that “mid-dle” year? Oh my, yes.
Does it seem like I’m downplay-ing the seriousness of the British in-vasion of the Chesapeake? I do not mean to do that. Though hardly a “battle” in the strictest sense, what did happen here 200 years ago ~ in 1813 ~ was very serious. To under-stand the events in this year, and in this most threatening theater of the war, we must realize what the Brit-ish were not doing.
Great Britain had the most pow-erful navy in the world. On the wa-ter, they were invincible. They also had tens of thousands of veteran soldiers, though in early 1813 many
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were still tied up fighting Napoleon Bonaparte. By contrast, the U.S. had only a few medium-sized war-ships and virtually no veteran army troops. We looked good on paper, but thousands of our soldiers were state militia with little training, led by aging veterans of the War of Rev-olution, and no military training or experience. Basically, they were farmers with guns.
The British knew that. Many of their officers held the American military forces in contempt. Still, there were 8 million of us (even then!) and many trees to shield our snipers. We knew the countryside and waterways, we had food and
supplies, and we were defending our homeland. The British realized that, too.
Recognizing the impracticality of occupying and holding any signifi-cant amount of territory, the Brit-ish simply didn’t try. Rather than invade and conquer, England’s aim was to force Mr. Madison to sue for peace, on their terms.
So, when a contingent of the Roy-al Navy sailed into the Bay suddenly in the spring of 1813, they had two quite realistic objectives: to block-ade and to harass. The blockade was to keep our privateers off the seas and interfere with our com-merce. The harassment also inter-fered with business, but primarily it was psychological warfare. They
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For the inhabitants of the Tide-water, on both shores, all of this was very bad news. Christopher George puts it exactly right in the title of his excellent book Terror on the Chesapeake.
Can we even imagine it? Our ancestors gazed out upon their fair Bay and saw huge war machines
there, the most deadly weapons of war yet invented, sailing unopposed up and down the Bay. This was the navy that kept Napoleon from the high seas for over a decade. Aboard this fleet were trained naval and military units led by experienced professional officers. And they were right here ~ inside the United States of America ~ on our Chesa-peake Bay.
We had no navy to oppose these great ships, and the Bay provided them with a highway into the heart-land of America, a path right to the doorstep of our nation’s capi-tal and our third-largest city. By remaining aboard ship, the British forces maintained their mobility and were utterly safe. In fact, they rarely spent more than a few nights ashore, anywhere. This was not in-vasion ~ it was hit-and-run raiding.
The worst must have been the not knowing. No one could be cer-tain what the British were planning; where they might strike; when, how big a force was coming; or even where they were at any moment. Here’s a typical newspaper report
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No community near the water was safe. The British chose their targets, usually villages with a mili-tia detachment nearby, and pounced without warning ~ burning build-ings, plundering (and sometimes
worse) ~ and then slipped quickly back aboard their great ships.
They soon learned what we al-ready knew, that the Bay and its tributaries were very shallow, and the only way to attack was in small-er shallow-draft vessels. They col-lected such boats, picking up a new one whenever a suitable vessel was spotted. They mastered the tech-nique of amphibious landings. A warship sailed as close as it could get to the target, then a few hun-dred men rowed ashore under cov-er of darkness and during the night marched quietly into position. At first light, they burst upon an un-suspecting town or village, did their dirty work, and were gone before any response could be mounted. Aside from a few brave militia at-tacks and skirmishes, it was all very one-sided.
And it was very, very frightening. Nowadays we hide and tremble as great storms, like Isabel or Sandy, come into the Bay for a day or two. In 1813, a British typhoon came into the Bay and stayed for a year and a half, wreaking havoc. To sus-tain their troops and ships’ crews, the British bought or stole provi-sions wherever they could. Every-thing was upset.
Operational command of the naval forces was given to Admi-ral Cockburn (pronounced “Co-burn”), who almost certainly did not like his orders. “Blockade and harass” would not lead to glory, or
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Local militiamen were no match for trained soldiers directed by pro-fessional British officers, and both sides knew it. When the British ap-peared, sensible Americans usually melted into the woods. Sometimes there were clashes, and sometimes, as at Queenstown, a British attack was foiled, but very rarely.
Occasionally there were clashes
on the water, where the odds were more even. Though completely out-gunned, American privateers were shallow draft, fast, and ma-neuverable. In darkness and fog, they often managed to slip past the British fleet and escape to sea ~ where they sank over a thousand English vessels.
One such slip-out happened in broad daylight off Tangier, and we have an American’s eye-witness ac-count of it. Mr. Charles Ball was aboard one of the British vessels when two Baltimore privateers came down the Bay. Being at an-chor and taken by surprise, the British had difficulty bringing guns to bear in time. The Americans sailed boldly right by the fleet, ex-
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changing fire as they passed, and disappeared down the Bay with little damage.
Ball found this incident amusing.One experienced American offi-
cer, Capt. Joshua Barney, appears to be the only one who thought it possible to put up any resistance. In July he proposed that we adopt similar hit-and-run tactics to pro-tect villages and harass the fleet. Permission was given to build such vessels, and Barney oversaw their construction during the autumn. He also began rounding up reliable men to crew them when hostilities began again in 1814.
One volunteer who signed up
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with Barney in late December of 1813 was our friend Charles Ball. He shared Barney’s adventures thereafter, fighting at Bladensburg and later in the defense of Balti-more. A very interesting man, Mr. Ball.
Born a slave in Calvert County, Ball married and fathered a fam-ily, was sold to a plantation in the South, escaped, made his way on foot back through the South to his family in Maryland, established himself as a free laborer, and then enlisted in the fight against the British. His choices were coura-geous ~ and unusual.
Some Americans reacted quite differently to the arrival of an “ene-my” fleet in Chesapeake Bay. Slaves still in bondage hoped the invasion might enable them to escape their masters, and the British were quick to take advantage of this. They saw a fine opportunity to collapse the local economy utterly, by removing its agricultural work force forever. Here’s a report from Chestertown, August 23, 1813: “Yesterday the enemy abandoned Kent-Island, after taking off every thing they could make useful or profitable;
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such as all the negroes that were not too old or infirm, stock of all kinds, &c. amounting at a rough calculation to upwards of 100,000 dollars. This day their whole fleet got under way and stood down the bay; so that we have a little more respite, but how long God knows.”
Blacks were actively recruited and offered protection on board ship if they deserted their masters. They were promised freedom and a place to start new lives, in Nova Scotia or the West Indies. They also were encouraged to join the military campaign, and Royal Navy officers concocted ways to make use of them, enlisting them as lo-cal guides, as spies, as recruiters to bring in more blacks. Lt. Col. Charles Napier proposed a plan to end the entire conflict in a matter of weeks, saying he could raise an army of 100,000 freed slaves in Vir-ginia, transport them to Delmarva, and then march north to overwhelm the frightened American militia. Admiral Cockburn didn’t pick up on that suggestion, but he did cre-ate the “Corps of Colonial Marines,”
special units made up of escaped slaves to whom he provided arms and uniforms. Some of these units took part in later hostilities.
Thousands of slaves took the British up on their offer and slipped away; the exact number is not known. How that choice worked out for them is fascinating, in some ways predictable, in some ways not. (But that’s another story.)
In October, the British ~ fearful of our mosquitoes, concerned about the hurricane season, with many men ill, some beginning to desert their festering ships, and everyone dog-tired of the whole sorry affair ~ sailed out of the Chesapeake for R&R in Bermuda. The terror of 1813 was over.
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George W. Sellers, CTC
A cruise is a great way to see Alaska.
Happy New Year! If the weather outside is not frightful at the mo-ment, just wait a bit ~ it will be. You know the song, “Oh the weath-er outside is frightful, but the fire is so delightful: and since we’ve no place to go...” Though the song be-comes popular every December, it is really a winter song, rather than a Christmas song.
Whenever I hear “Let It Snow” (the song’s proper title), I am re-minded that it is time to plan a trip to a cooler place. Cooler place!?! (Has he finally lost his mind?) Autumn is the best time to make
plans for a trip to Alaska the fol-lowing summer, but there is usually some space still available when the weather turns really cold here on DelMarVa.
For most folks, a trip to see the 49th state is a once-in-a-lifetime event. Such a journey represents a significant commitment of time and money, and therefore sufficient thought and planning are necessary to yield the best possible experi-ence. It is the BIGGEST state and there are many ways to appreciate the land, wildlife and people. The typical manner in which Alaska is
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Tidewater Travelerexperienced is by participating in a cruise or cruise-tour. There are also many less common ways to ex-plore the region.
For cruising and touring Alaska, dozens of travel plans and patterns are available. For a good general overview trip, the most popular plan is a 7-night cruise preceded or followed by a 4- or 5-night land touring package making use of train and motor coach transportation.
Cruises begin sailing to Alaska ports of call in mid-May and con-tinue to sail through early Septem-ber. Most cruises begin or end at the southern Alaska ports of Whit-tier and Seward; or from the ports of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; or Seattle, Washington.
There are two basic cruise pat-terns from each of these ports. The first is a round trip, out-and-back, to the same port. The second pattern is a one-way cruise from Seward or Whittier southward to Vancouver or Seattle; or vice versa, northward from Seattle or Vancou-ver to one of the Alaska ports. Of course, there are exceptions and variations to these patterns.
When a 4- or 5-night land tour is appended to one of these cruises, the tour usually includes such land destinations as the interior cities of Fairbanks and Anchorage, and Denali National Park with wild-life treks and sightings of Mount
Mt. McKinley
McKinley. The pace of land touring is often more tiring than cruising ~ moving from hotel to hotel and covering lots of miles. For this rea-son, I recommend doing the land tour before boarding a southbound cruise ship for the final seven nights of the trip. Doing so places the more relaxing segment of the trip (the cruise) at the end of the vacation.
It is interesting to note that fares are usually higher for a southbound, land-before-cruise pattern than for a northbound cruise-before-land, because southbound is the more popular pattern.
There are some great deals (low fares) to be found for Alaska cruises in May, June and September, but there are two reasons the fares are lower during those months than in July and August. First, the prob-ability of encountering uncomfort-able weather is much greater before the end of June, and after late Au-gust. In May and June the weather is more unpredictable and can be quite cold.
Second, any trip is made better or
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worse by the service staff encoun-tered in hotels and restaurants, on trains and buses, in shops, on tours and at tourist attractions. Alaska is truly a seasonal destination where the hospitality industry relies heav-ily upon temporary workers, most of whom are available only from mid-June through late August.
Because cruise fares are market-driven, the less popular, less com-fortable, less convenient times to travel will yield lower rates. So, beware of great rates in May, June and September.
My recommendation for folks who want to check off this bucket-list item is to fly into Fairbanks and join a tour that will travel by train and motor coach to explore the ar-
eas around Denali, Mount McKin-ley and Anchorage. Next, board a ship at Seward or Whittier for a 7-night cruise along the southern coast of Alaska to see Glacier Bay, Prince William Sound and College Fjord.
After leaving the Gulf of Alaska, the cruise will call at ports like Skagway, Juneau, Ketchikan and Sitka, and sail on through the In-side Passage to reach Vancouver or Seattle.
An Alaska cruise is one of the few for which I strongly encourage pay-ing extra to have a personal balcony from which whale-watching in your PJs with a morning coffee is a real possibility. My preference is to see guests in a mid-ship, balcony, cabin
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While on an Alaska cruise, whether or not coupled with a land tour, there are opportunities to go ashore for some fascinating day ex-cursions. Day trips from the ship can include visits to glaciers, dog-sledding camps, train excursions, cultural centers, ethnic dining or native shopping experiences.
My favorite port of call is Skag-way, a destination that was featured in the November 2003 Tidewater Traveler. Approaching Skagway by ship, the town looks like the village of a model train layout, and once ashore it is like stepping back in time to the gold rush era.
Alaska has some less visited re-gions that can be enjoyed as part of a group tour or independently. For example, it’s a long, desolate ride, but many folks enjoy going north along the route of Ice Road Truck-ers to Prudhoe Bay and the town of Coldfoot near the Arctic Circle and on to the site of the largest oil field in North America.
Another uncommon destina-tion waiting to be explored is the vast interior basin of the Klondike River featuring much of Eastern
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Alaska and the Yukon Territory of Canada. The Aleutian Islands, the arm that reaches out to the south-west toward Russia, is another off-the-beaten-path consideration for tourists ~ an awesome destination for salmon fishing.
Many visitors to Alaska choose less typical modes of transporta-tion. Consider flying to just about any major Alaskan city to rent a car, a minivan, a motorhome, or a Har-ley. Secure a map and a GPS to let the adventure begin.
“Once-in-a-lifetime” ~ yes, for most travelers ~ but many look for-ward to a return.
May all of your travels be happy and safe!
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Christmas Candyby
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It was not quite dark, but only a few dimming horizontal rays of snow-reflected sunlight survived to paint the long shadows of sunset. I had tired of playing Only Child foot-ball in the field between our house and my grandparents’, so I decided to stop and visit Pop before I headed home for supper.
The dim light from the green-hooded bulb hanging over the workbench shone through the frost-framed window of Pop’s workshop. I was too small to see in, but I knew that if he was in there I’d hear his soft humming over the muffled crunch of my Arctic boots punch-ing through ice-crusted snow as I approached. I listened, and when I heard the faint sound of a hymn be-ing hummed inside, I smiled.
I heaved the heavy white door open and entered the fascinating world of the packrat. Every ex-posed rafter overhead was deco-rated with some sort of dangling object in limbo: Yins without Yangs ~ sulky wheels in need of a sulky, an old porcelain door-knob absent its door, a head-less goose decoy, an oxen double tree, a Studebaker steering wheel, and hundreds of other orphaned
items. (I coveted the porcelain doorknob.)
The humming paused momen-tarily as Pop acknowledged my ar-rival with a slow turn and a smile that met mine. He went back to what he was doing and restarted the hymn without uttering a word. None was needed. It was under-stood that I would climb atop the old stool next to him and become spectator to his project du jour, currently unrecognizable as it lay in pieces upon his workbench.
Pop’s humming was comfort-ing. Notes flowed out effortlessly with each breath, then patiently stepped aside during replenish-ment. Tempo accommodated the natural breathing cadence of one at peace with himself. It was a sooth-ing activity suited to tedious tasks, for it was impossible to hurry and hum at the same time.
“Hey, Pop! Got any Christmas candy?” Pop turned from what he was doing, peered down and over-top his bifocals and slowly released a white swirl of Prince Albert past the stem of the old curved Briar Richmond that drooped from the corner of his mouth.
I knew by the bulging lumps in
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the bottom of his sweater pocket that the answer to my question was “Yes.” I also knew that he was con-templating an answer to a question of his own: “Do I dare release these springs, peel off a work glove and fish out a piece of candy for this boy?” That answer was easy, too. “No!” But no is a word that is im-possible to utter when staring at a smile with a gaping hole where two tiny front teeth had resided only a few weeks before.
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period the left pocket of Pop’s green wool shop sweater ~ chief transporter of the Richmond and its Prince Albert-laden pipe to-bacco pouch ~ was topped off each morning with a fresh layer of col-orful nuggets.
By early March a mixture of fresh tobacco, candy chips, and copious amounts of pocket wool formed a dry rub at its bottom. If the temperature was right (or would that be wrong?), rock candy bottom dwellers within the pocket were transformed into tiny green woolen throw pillows randomly dotted with brown Prince Albert escapees.
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ing thickly coated bottom dwellers, and although I was certain that the pristine pieces added that morning had already been consumed, I had asked for a piece anyway. Pop dug deep and, as suspected, the piece that finally emerged was so heav-ily cloaked in pocket rub that it was only an Izod Gator shy of being mis-taken for a tiny sleeveless sweater.
This, of course, was no barrier to ingestion for a kid, so I accepted the offering gladly, thanked Pop, and popped it into my mouth. It felt like a ... caterpillar! I pinched the fuzzy creature in my toothless gap, then pulled my lips back in a big grin to show Pop. He grinned back as he pulled his glove on, puffed new life into the Richmond and returned to his work.
I watched as the still unidentifi-able project reached completion, and peered up as Pop hung it from a nail in its new home in the raf-ters above. “Guess I’ll go home now, Pop,” I said. “Thanks for the candy.” Pop watched his newest Yin swinging to a standstill and, without looking down, seamlessly sewed the words “You’re welcome,
son,” into the song he was hum-ming. I shut the big white door be-hind me and crunched off into the moonlit night.
As always, panicked but exhila-rated, I sprinted ahead of the pack of spooky night creatures who de-lighted in chasing me home in the dark. Just as I was about to be gob-bled up, I burst through the kitch-en door, slamming it behind me, sealing the seeds of nightmares out of my waking world once again. I collapsed into my chair at the din-ing table, winded, but safe, the ef-fect of the Prince Albert nicotine quickly neutralizing the adrenaline assault on my thumping heart.
Though my mother had been talking to me for who knows how long as she shuttled dinner from the kitchen to our table, I hadn’t heard a word. Instead, my focus had been on sucking the last of the sweetness from Pop’s Christmas candy. And when the last little piece had finally melted away, leaving nothing but a caterpillar exoskeleton of wool and tobacco, I removed it, dried it on a napkin, and placed it in my shirt pocket believing it to be something impor-tant. It wasn’t, of course, but the memory of that winter day is re-awakened each time I turn this old porcelain doorknob on my work-shop door that has found a place in my heart forever.
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Tidewater Reviewby
Anne Stinson
Return of the Amerind, the sequel to Herons Poynte by G.M.O. Callaghan. Cashel & Kells Publishing Company - a subsidiary of Callaghan Films, Ltd. 458 pp. $16.95.
The book title Amerind is derived from the words American and In-dian. The novel is about an avenging young Native American man whose mission is recovery of his ancestors’ homeland. Amerind was also the name of the slave ship that brought a load of African captives to be sold at the tip of Tilghman Island in the author’s previous book, Herons Poynte.
David Waterfield came from a sod hut on an Oklahoma reservation to the Naval Academy in Annapolis on a path to recovering the sacred ground that was stolen from his an-tecedents. His tribe, the Choptanks, had populated the banks of the great river with the same name, a place they called The Great Oak at the Center of the World. When white men arrived more than 300 years
ago, they cheated and killed most of the Indians, tossing the bodies into a bog and driving the survivors into exile. Imported slaves built a mansion while the new “owners” built fortunes.
David, however, had the original
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parchment that confirmed the white men’s role in the theft of the lands of his ancestors. Caesarius Blackburn, the English signer, was drunk when the deed from his king was settled – his inked thumb slipped across the parchment and included the area on the western shore of the Chesapeake Bay at the entrance to the Patapsco River.
Tobacco began to fill the family coffers at Blackburn’s Eastern Shore plantation until the soil was ruined. Later, through the late 19th and 20th centuries, the great belching Black-burn Steel Mill on the Patapsco site poured billions of dollars into the pockets of generations of the original Blackburns, whose chicanery gave them ownership.
Callaghan’s precis clarifies the sit-uation as it exists now ~ five months after the end of Heron Poynte. Da-vid is missing, presumed dead. A severed head floats into Baltimore Harbor, even more gruesome after its immersion for months. Crabs have eaten its eyes, rockfish have feasted on its ears and only DNA will reveal its identity.
David was the predicted savior the ancient Choptanks foretold who would one day return the sacred spot to its rightful owners. In the previ-ous novel, he accomplished the chore at the cost of his own life, a disap-pearance below the waves of the Bay.
David was unaware that his sweet-
Tidewater Review heart, Liz, was pregnant with his child when he vanished. His son is born, clearly his father’s image – he sleeps with his eyes open as David did when he was alive.
With David’s successful court ac-tion that gives the Blackburn billions to its rightful heirs, the search begins for descendants of the Choptank warriors buried in the bog and re-corded by their kinfolk before they were driven off their land. A sepa-rate slave graveyard held the bodies of servants who died in bondage at King’s Oak, as the Blackburns had renamed the place.
The huge job of finding and con-firming the rightful heirs promised to be a lengthy challenge. It also provided a break for scoundrels as-sociated with the Blackburn cabal, stalling as long as possible to keep their investments intact.
The senior Blackburn at the big house had perished in his wheel-chair as a storm at the mouth of the Choptank River blew open a window and a kerosene lamp fell to the floor and ignited the rug. His only son, Tamian, was in his boat at top speed as he fled from David. In his flight, Tamian crossed the gap between a tug towing a barge connected by a taut wire. He was decapitated and suddenly there were no more Black-burns to inherit the charred mansion and plantation.
There was one more asset that made money as deftly as it made steel. The property at the mouth of
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the Patapsco River on the western shore, originally Herons Poynte, is silent and almost empty since a court order included it in the judge-ment against the Blackburns. The Steel Works that had been a 24-hour operation, coughing toxic smoke into the sky, draining putrid water into the river, raining soot and polluted air into its 10,000 workers’ lungs, was out of business.
The last Blackburn was dead, but his colleagues were still very much alive. One was the pres-ident of Temple Bank & Trust, the temporary stopping place for Steel Mill profits, which were then divided into less traceable “shelters” in the Caymans, the invis-ible vaults of Switzerland, Singapore, and many more secure hideaways. One of the bank’s Board members was a judge with a hankering to be the next state governor. The clever pair were cohorts with Tamian since they had been students at Boy’s Latin, calling themselves the “Three Musketeers.”
The bank president was directed to be the trustee for the Blackburn wealth by that same judge. They were in a perfect position to stall for years while they used the money to make more money and ensure huge kickbacks for themselves. The court order charged the bank to certify the consanguinity of blacks and Indians to their early families and then split the riches of the estate to those whose DNA tests indicated matches.
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The job had no time restraint on meeting the goal. In view of the huge response from candidates for the spoils, it could take decades.
At the same time, bigwigs at the Pentagon are threatening a lawsuit against the shut-down Blackburn Steel Mill for selling inferior steel for a multi-million-dollar contract for new nuclear submarines. The first sub delivered had sunk, drowning more than 100 sailors. The bank has a very clever lawyer to squelch the threat.
Suddenly, David is back! He has a wild and wicked story to relate to his friends, both black and Indian. They need his leadership to recover
Tidewater Review the money they’ve been promised. He tells them the tale of his near-drowning, the result of the Coast Guard’s mistaken capture attempt, gunfire, cocaine sellers, and whoop-dee-do action on every page. And speaking of pages ~ the reader is only on page 200 ... that leaves just 258 to go!
This book has too much fun and tricky plotting to even consider putting it aside. The good folks are clean, brave and kind as Boy Scouts. The villains are wonderfully villain-ous, the steelworkers are rascally but have hearts of gold. This reader is no lawyer, but some of the strokes of luck in the transactions sound a bit dubious. No matter.
David, the heroic Indian, plays the
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role of the Prince in a fairy tale. Liz, his honey, is the Princess who must suffer before she lives happily ever after. David’s no-nonsense mother and two young sisters are stoic or silly as the plot meets bumps, haz-ards and problems for the hero.
One of the slave retainers is an albino, whose son is a result of Blackburn rape. Callaghan includes a catalog of Indian lore and ritu-als, whether fictional or factual, I know not.
Whatever the author’s intention, he clearly exhibits a reverent admi-ration for the underdog, and does it with passages of prose that are stun-ningly beautiful. His description of
Tidewater Review landscapes, his mastery of the effects of wind over water, even the mud after a rain, all unfold like poetry. For a wordsmith, it’s enchanting.
Amerind is a grand saga, an unlikely story, but who cares? I loved it!
Anne Stinson began her career in the 1950s as a free lance for the now defunct Baltimore News-American, then later for Chesa-peake Publishing, the Baltimore Sun and Maryland Public Televi-sion’s panel show, Maryland News-rap. Now in her ninth decade, she still writes a monthly book review for Tidewater Times.
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The Arts in Easton Banner AuctionThe 11th annual Arts In Easton
Banner Auction was held on Satur-day, December 8, at the Waterfowl Festival Building in Easton. In the spring, local artists were awarded a 2-sided canvas banner to create original works of art. Some banners were painted with oil and acrylic paint, while others were photog-raphy art and even woven textiles. The banners were hung on down-town Easton lampposts from July until November. They were taken down, separated and prepared for auction. There were a total of 86 banners displayed for the auction.
It was a vibrant, high-paced eve-ning filled with local artists, live mu-sic and true community spirit. The event was free and open to the public. The diversity of the 86 banners truly showcased the arts community in our area. The artists are professional artists, award winning artists, art teachers, amateur artists and even students from our local schools.
All banners were sold either dur-ing the silent auction or the live auc-tion. Buyers also had the opportu-nity to peruse the entire collection online and start the bidding process. When a banner reached 10 bids it was eligible for live auction which took place at 8 p.m. Proceeds from the sale of banners go directly to the local artists (75%) and the nonprofit Avalon Foundation (25%).
Jennifer Heyd Wharton painted the top-selling banner, Buttercups and Belted Galloways that sold for $2100 at Live Auction. The top three selling artists were Jennifer Heyd Wharton, Patricia Fisher and Jer-emy Joseph. For more information about The Arts In Easton Banner program please visit www.theava-lonfoundation/bannerprogram/.
The Arts In Easton Banner Pro-gram is the work of the Avalon Foundation and made possible by participating artists, many volun-teers, the community, the Talbot County Arts Council and The Star Democrat. Thank you to all who support this program!
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Upcoming Events at the Historical Society of Talbot County
Historical Society of Talbot County25 S. Washington St., Easton
410-822-0773 · www.hstc.org · [email protected]
Food for Thought:“Uncovering an Historic African-American Neighborhood”
Thursday, January 17th ~ promptly at noonInn at 202 Dover and Peacock Restaurant
202 Dover Street, Easton
The Historical Society of Talbot County and Historic Easton are pleased to offer a lunchtime presentation about the area known as “The Hill” in Easton. This area of Easton has long been an African-American neighborhood. But until recently, the public has been unaware of its
significance and history. In the late 1700’s, free African Americans lived on “The Hill”, an anomaly in an era when slavery was widespread in Talbot County. Come for a buffet lunch at the Inn at 202 Dover and
Peacock Restaurant to include a cup of soup, assorted sandwiches, green salad, macaroni salad, and iced tea and coffee and hear from Dale Green of Morgan State University and Mark Leone from the University of Maryland who are
deeply involved in the research of this area of our historic town. The cost per HSTC/HE member is $30 and $35 for non-members.
1812-1814 Costume & Acting Troupe WorkshopsThursday, January 3rd ~ 4 p.m.
Historical Society Museum25 S. Washington Street, Easton
Learn how to put together an 1812 era costume for the ball. Advice on how to use your own clothes, what to look for if you purchase modern clothes,
or how to sew your own costume will be provided.
To make reservations for these events or to ask a question, call 410-822-0773 or visit hstc.org to register online.
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Upcoming Events at the Historical Society of Talbot County
Historical Society of Talbot County25 S. Washington St., Easton
410-822-0773 · www.hstc.org · [email protected]
War of 1812-1814 Militia RecruitmentSaturday, January 12th ~ Noon
Miles River Yacht Club24750 Yacht Club Road, St. Michaels
Calling all men of Talbot County to join the War of 1812 Eastern Shore Militia. Experienced military re-enactor John Wyman will explain what
the militia will be doing in the next years. New recruits will get drilled in the manual of arms.
War of 1812-1814 Formal Ball & Dance WorkshopSaturday, January 12th
Dance Workshop ~ 1:30 p.m. Dinner ~ 6 p.m. · Dance ~ 7:30 p.m.
Miles River Yacht ClubStart out the new year by celebrating an old year. 1813 was the year the people of St. Michaels defended their town from the British in the War of 1812-1814.
We’ll dance the night away just like Dolly Madison and Francis Scott Key. This is also the era of Jane Austen and the English Regency. Live music will
fill the air, dance mistresses will teach us the steps, and you can sparkle in your own period costume or modern formal attire. An optional dinner will feature food inspired by menus of 1813. No partner required - everyone will dance
with everyone. Costumes will be available for rental at HSTC, or youcan make your own. The dance workshop, which is free, in the afternoon
will give you a head start on learning the dances.Dinner and dance tickets are $75 per guest; Dance only tickets are $30
To make reservations for these events or to ask a question, call 410-822-0773 or visit hstc.org to register online.
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Daily Meeting: Mid-Shore Inter-group Alcoholics Anonymous meetings. For places and times call 410-822-4226 or visit www.midshoreintergroup.org.
Every Thurs. - Sat. Amish Coun-try Farmer’s Market in Easton. An indoor market offering fresh produce, meats, dairy products, furniture and more. 101 Marl-boro Ave. For more info. tel: 410-822-8989.
Thru Feb. 1 Exhibit: Jonathan Shaw will present new works in A Brush with Nature at Ad-kins Arboretum, Ridgely. The show includes paintings of na-
tive Eastern Shore animals and plants. For more info. tel: 410-634-2847, ext. 0 or visit www.adkinsarboretum.org.
Thru Feb. 10 Exhibit: The Art of Seating - Two Hundred Years of American Design at the Acad-emy Art Museum, Easton. The exhibition, organized by The Museum of Contemporary Art, Jacksonville and the Jacobsen Collection of American Art, presents a survey of exceptional American chair design from the early 19th century to the present day. For more info. tel: 410-822-ARTS (2787) or visit www.academyartmuseum.org.
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day Morning Artists meet each Wednesday at 8 a.m. at Creek Deli in Cambridge. No cost. For more info. visit www.wednes-daymorningartists .com or contact Nancy at [email protected] or 410-463-0148.
2,9,16,23,30 St. Michaels Art League’s weekly “Paint Togeth-er” at the home of Alice-Marie Gravely. 1 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-745-8117.
2,9,16,23,30 Social Time for Se-niors at the St. Michaels Com-munity Center, every Wednesday
from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. The first Wednesday of the month is always BINGO, the second and fourth are varying activities, and the third is art class. For more info. tel: 410-745-6073.
2,16 Plant Clinic offered by the University of Maryland Coopera-tive Extension’s Master Garden-ers of Talbot County at the Talbot County Free Library, Easton. 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-822-1244.
3 The Oxford Garden Club pres-ents Tim Junkin, founder and executive director of Midshore Riverkeeper Conservancy, to speak on “Waterkeepers of the
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January CalendarEastern Shore.” There will also be a film presentation on the Choptank River, Miles River and tributaries. Free to the public. 2 p.m. at the Oxford Community Center, Oxford. For more info. tel: 410-226-5415.
3 Stitch and Chat at the Talbot County Free Library, St. Mi-chaels. Bring your own projects and stitch with a group. 10 a.m. For more info. tel: 410-822-1626 or visit www.tcfl.org.
4 First Friday Gallery Walk in downtown Easton. 5 to 9 p.m. Easton’s art galleries, antiques shops and restaurants combine for a unique cultural experience. Raffles, gift certificates and street vendors! For more info. tel: 410-770-8350.
4 Chestertown’s First Friday. Extended shop hours with arts and entertainment throughout historic downtown. For a list
of activities visit: www.kent-county.com/artsentertainment.
4 Dorchester Swingers Square Dance from 7:30 to 10 p.m. at Maple Elementary School, Egypt Rd., Cambridge. Refreshments provided. For more info. tel: 410-820-8620.
4,11,18,25 Bingo! every Friday night at the Easton Volunteer Fire Department on Creamery Lane, Easton. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. and games start at 7:30 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-822-4848.
4-27 Exhibit: Tim Bell at South Street Art Gal lery , Easton. Opening reception on Jan. 4 from 5 to 8 p.m. Gallery hours are Fri.-Sat., 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. and other times by chance or appointment. For more info. tel: 410-770-8350 or visit www.southstreetgallery.com.
5 First Saturday Guided Walk at Adkins Arboretum, Ridgely.
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Berlioz’s Les Troyens
Explore the Arboretum’s diverse plant communities on a guided walk led by an Arboretum docent naturalist. 10 a.m. For more info. tel: 410-634-2847, ext. 0.
5 The Met: Live in HD at the Ava-lon Theatre, Easton, features Berlioz’s Les Troyens. Noon. (5:45 hr. runtime) For more info. tel: 410-822-7299 or visit www.avalontheatre.com.
5 Bridal Show at the Chesapeake Bay Beach Club in Stevensville, from noon to 5 p.m. Envision your extraordinary waterfront wedding as you stroll through our beachfront property’s luxu-rious roomscapes, with cham-pagne in hand. Exclusive pastry chefs, decor experts, bridal fashion designers, DJs, florists and more. The Beach Club’s cu-linary team will entice you with samples from the 2013 menu. $15 in advance, $20 at the door. For more info. tel: 410-604-1933 or visit www.baybeachclub.com.
5 Concert: Young Rapids in the Stoltz Listening Room, Avalon Theatre, Easton. 8 p.m. This is an up-and-coming indie pop band that’s creating a lot of buzz in the DC music scene. $15. For more info. tel: 410-822-7299.
6 Arts Express bus trip to see My Fair Lady at Arena Stage, Wash-ington, D.C. sponsored by the Academy Art Museum, Easton. $140/$105 member. For more info. tel: 410-822-2787 or visit www.academyartmuseum.org.
6 The Talbot Cinema Society will present Inside Job (2010) at the Avalon Theatre, Easton. Doors
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open and food served at 5:15 p.m., film introduction at 5:45 p.m., film starts at 6 p.m. fol-lowed by questions, answers and discussions. For more info. e-mail [email protected].
7 Brown Bag Lunch at the Talbot County Free Library, St. Michaels features David Foster and “Meet Mr. Mencken: An Hour with the Sage of Baltimore.” Foster’s por-trayal of Mencken’s pungent wit, swashbuckling style and icon-shaking spirit is sure to arouse, offend and greatly amuse! Noon. For more info. tel: 410-822-1626 or visit www.tcfl.org.
January Calendar 7 Academy for Lifelong Learning Winter Social at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, St. Mi-chaels. 4 to 6 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-745-2916.
8 First Step Storytime at the Talbot County Free Library, Easton. 10 a.m. For children 3 and under accompanied by an adult. For more info. tel: 410-822-1626 or visit www.tcfl.org.
8 Preschool Storytime at the Talbot County Free Library, Easton. 2 p.m. For children 3 to 5 accompa-nied by an adult. Pickering Creek will lead their Tiny Tots program. For more info. tel: 410-822-1626 or visit www.tcfl.org.
8,15,22,29 Academy for Lifelong Learning: Fit for Harbors and Habitations ~ The Islands of the Lower Shore with Phillip Hesser at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, St. Michaels. 2:30 to 4 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-745-2916.
8,22 Academy for Lifelong Learn-ing: This I Believe with Don Rush at the Londonderry Retirement Community in Easton. 1 to 2:30 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-745-2916.
8,22 Meeting: Tidewater Stamp Club at the Mayor and Council Bldg., Easton. 7:30 p.m. For
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8,10,15,17,22,24,29,31 Dancing on the Shore every Tuesday and Thursday at the Academy Art Museum, Easton. 7 to 9 p.m. Learn to waltz, swing, salsa, Argentine tango and more. For more info. tel: 410-482-6169.
9 Academy for Lifelong Learning Book Club: The Cat’s Table by Mi-chael Ondaatje with Esty Collet and Margot Miller at the Chesa-peake Bay Maritime Museum, St. Michaels. 2:30 to 4 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-745-2916.
9 Meeting: Talbot Optimist Club at the Washington Street Pub,
Easton. 6:30 p.m. For more info. e-mail [email protected].
10 Academy for Lifelong Learning Memoir Writing Club with Joan Katz at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, St. Michaels. 1 to 3 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-745-2916.
10 From the Embassy to Your Kindle: Tracking the E-book Revolution with author William S. Shepard at the Talbot County Free Library, St. Michaels. 5:30 p.m. Shepard will explain how to find and then download e-books to your computer, iPad or Kindle. For more info. tel: 410-822-1626 or visit www.tcfl.org.
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12 Meeting: Oxford Ladies’ Break-fast at the Robert Morris Inn. 9:30 a.m. All ladies in the com-munity, including friends and visiting guests, are welcome. $15 per person includes tax and gratuity. For more info. tel: 410-225-0340.
12 War of 1812-1814 Formal Ball sponsored by the Historical Society of Talbot County. 1:30 p.m. dance workshop to give you a head start on learning the dances, 6 p.m. dinner and 7:30 p.m. dance at the Miles River Yacht Club, St. Michaels. Start out the new year by celebrating
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an old year! No partner is need-ed for the dancing. The steps are easy and the American Ladies will “call” the dances. Costumes will be available for rental at the Historical Society and Berrier’s Menswear. The workshop is free. Dinner and dance tickets are $75 per guest, and $30 for dance tickets only. For more info. tel: 410-822-0773 or 410-745-5411 or visit www.hstc.org/eventsandprograms.htm.
12 Saturday Speaker Series at the Talbot County Free Library, St. Michaels, will feature Captain Wade Murphy of the skipjack Rebecca Ruark. Fifth genera-tion Tilghman Island waterman
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Murphy tells stories of dredging oysters and his skipjack. 2 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-822-1626 or visit www.tcfl.org.
12 2nd Saturday at the Foundry at 401 Market St., Denton. Watch local artists demonstrate their talents. 2 to 4 p.m. Free. For more info. tel: 410-479-1009.
12,26 Country Church Breakfast at Faith Chapel & Trappe United Methodist Churches in Wesley Hall, Trappe. 7:30 to 10:30 a.m. Menu: eggs, pancakes, French toast, sausage, scrapple, hash browns, grits, sausage gravy and biscuits, juice and coffee. TUMC is also the home of “Martha’s
Closet” Yard Sale and Commu-nity Outreach Store, which is always open during the breakfast and also every Wednesday from 8:30 a.m. to noon.
13 Pancake Breakfast at the Oxford Volunteer Fire Dept. 8 to 11 a.m. Proceeds to benefit the Oxford Volunteer Fire Services. $8. For more info. tel: 410-226-5110.
14 Academy for Lifelong Learning Memoir Writing Club with Joan Katz at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, St. Michaels. 1:30 to 3;30 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-745-2916.
14 Stitching Time at the Talbot
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County Free Library, Easton. 3 p.m. Join a group and work on your needlecraft projects. Lim-ited instruction for beginners. For more info. tel: 410-822-1626 or visit www.tcfl.org.
14,28 Tot Time at the Talbot Coun-ty Free Library, St. Michaels. 10:15 a.m. Stories, puppets and crafts for children 5 and under accompanied by an adult. For more info. tel: 410-822-1626 or visit www.tcfl.org.
15,22,29 Academy for Lifelong Learning: God’s Biography with Sam Barnett at the Chesapeake
January Calendar Bay Maritime Museum, St. Mi-chaels. 10:30 a.m. to noon. For more info. tel: 410-745-2916.
16,23,30 Academy for Lifelong Learning: Betas, Big Brother, and Unbabies ~ Deciphering 20th Century Dystopia in Four Novels with John Ford and Kate Livie at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, St. Michaels. 1 to 2:30 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-745-2916.
17,24,31 Academy for Lifelong Learning: U.S. History - 1815 to 1861 ~ From Nationalism to Disunion with Robert Springer at the Talbot Senior Center, Easton. 1 to 2:30 p.m. For more info. tel:
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18 Soup Day at the St. Michaels Community Center. Choose from three delicious soups for lunch. $6 meal deal. Choose from Chicken & Dumplings, Cheese & Broccoli or Vegetable Beef. Each meal comes with a bowl of soup, a roll and a drink. Take out or eat in! We deliver in St. Michaels. For more info. tel:410-745-6073.
18 Talbot Mentors Open House from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. at the Mentor office, 108 Maryland Ave., Easton. Celebrate National Mentoring Month and learn how to become a mentor. Light re-
freshments. For more info. tel: 410-770-5999.
18 23rd Annual Spaghetti Dinner at St. Luke’s United Methodist Church, St. Michaels. 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. Join us for fantastic food, family fun and fine fellow-ship. All you can eat for $10 ~ children 11 and under $4. Take-outs will be available. For more info. tel: 410-745-2534.
18-21 Easton Studio and School Workshop: Nancy Tankersley on Jumpstart into Oils. This popu-lar 4-day workshop is perfect for beginning painters or those who have not picked up a paintbrush in years. Designed to acquaint
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you with the methods and ma-terials of oil painting. For more info. tel: 410-770-4421.
19 Family Waterfowl Hunt spon-sored by Immanuel United Church of Christ, Cambridge. Guided hunt on some of the East-ern Shore’s wonderful hunting properties. Registration begins at 5 a.m. $60 covers breakfast, hunt and lunch. Proceeds from the event will benefit Dorches-ter’s Emergency Cold Weather Shelter, IUCC Mission Commit-tee and the IUCC General fund. For more info. tel: 410-228-4640 or e-mail [email protected].
19 The Met: Live in HD at the Avalon Theatre, Easton, features Donizetti’s Maria Stuarda. 12:55 p.m. (3:15 hr. runtime). For more info. tel: 410-822-7299 or visit www.avalontheatre.com.
21 St. Michaels Art League Meet-ing at Christ Church Parish Hall, Willow St., St. Michaels. 9:30 a.m. The January meet-ing will feature Matt Ghrist, a prize-winning local art teacher, who will offer a demonstration of his talent as an architectural and figurative painter. For more info. tel: 410-226-5351 or visit www.stmichaelsartleague.org.
21 Academy for Lifelong Learning: War of 1812 Flintlocks with Tom Huddleston at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, St. Mi-chaels. 2 to 3 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-745-2916.
23 Winter Crafts at the Talbot County Free Library, St. Mi-chaels. 4 p.m. Seasonal crafts for the whole family. For more info. tel: 410-822-1626 or visit www.tcfl.org.
24,31 Academy for Lifelong Learn-ing: The Hidden Story with Judy Shepard at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, St. Michaels. 1 to 2:30 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-745-2916.
24 Concert: The Ryan Montebleau Band in the Stoltz Listening Room, Avalon Theatre, Easton. 8 p.m. This 5 (sometimes 6) piece outfit from Boston is known for a distinctive blend of neo-folk, classic soul, and kick-out-the-jams Americana. $20. For more info. tel: 410-822-7299.
25 Academy Art Museum Concert: Hors d’oeuvres at 5:45 p.m., dinner at 6 p.m. and concert at 7 p.m. with a performance by Mark Cudek and the Peabody Early Music Ensemble. Come warm up winter at the Academy Art Museum, Easton. For more info. tel: 410-822-2787 or visit
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• Isyourtreecracked—linesandbulgesinthebark?
• Doesyourtreeleanwithabulgeinthesoilawayfromthelean?Istherootsystemofyourtreeliftingoutoftheground?
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www.academyartmuseum.org.
25 Concert: Sticky Longfingers and the Rusted Butter in the Stoltz Listening Room, Avalon Theatre, Easton. 8 p.m. Hail-ing from Cambridge, MD, this eclectic 7-member band is a melting pot of musical talent with influences ranging from the West Coast style, to hip hop, to folky rock bands, and intricate progressive styles thrown in for good measure. $12. For more info. tel: 410-822-7299.
26 Concert: Livingston Taylor at the Avalon Theatre, Easton. 8 p.m. Taylor picked up his first guitar at age 13, beginning a 40-year career that has encom-passed performances, songwrit-
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Livingston Taylor
ing and teaching. And, yes, he’s James’ brother. $25. For more info. tel: 410-822-7299.
28 Academy for Lifelong Learn-ing: Great Decisions Discussion Program with Phillip Betsch at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, St. Michaels. 2 to 3 p.m. For more info. tel: 410-745-2916.
29 Origami! at the Talbot County Free Library, Easton. 4 p.m. For ages 8 and up. For more info. tel: 410-822-1626 or visit www.tcfl.org.
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George Merrill – New Essayist forDelmarva Public Radio
Author and photographer George Merrill, who is well known for his wit and wisdom by the literary and artistic communities of Tal-bot County, can now be heard on Delmarva Public Radio. “On the Shore,” a selection of his reflec-tive and sometimes whimsical es-says will be broadcast bi-weekly on Public Radio Delmarva (WSDL 90.7 FM).
The essays reflect his experiences in living twenty-three years on the Eastern Shore, and of being a priest for fifty-two years. They focus on ordinary happenings one might en-counter on the Shore.
In addition to the broadcasts, the essays from “On the Shore,” accom-panied by George’s photography, will be posted on the Public Radio Delmarva website at www.publi-cradiodelmarva.net.
George’s essays and photogra-phy have appeared in regional and national publications, including The Star Democrat, The Delmarva Quarterly, Tidewater Times, Chesa-peake Bay Magazine, The Delmar-va Review, and Journeys, a publica-tion of the American Association of Pastoral Counselors. His essay, “The World Is My Oyster” was awarded first place in a creative nonfiction competition by the Rehoboth Beach
Writers Guild and Delmarva Beach Life magazine. George is now com-pleting a memoir for publication, Traveling Light: a memoir of sui-cide, spirituality and survival. He posts articles regularly on his blog: http://georgemerrill .blogspot.com. An ordained Episcopal priest, George trained as a psychotherapist, served on faculty at Loyola’s Pasto-ral Counseling department, and di-rected counseling services in Hart-ford, CT, and Baltimore, MD.
Photo courtesy of WillsonWyatt, Jr.
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